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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A nutlike gall. Nutgalls on certain oak trees were formerly used as a source of tannic acid for making ink and dye.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An excrescence, chiefly of the oak. See gall, 1.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A more or less round gall resembling a nut, esp. one of those produced on the oak and used in the arts. See gall, gallnut.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An enlarged growth on a tree formed in response to damage or parasite. Sometimes called just a gall.

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  • "Into the leather-crafts souk, fragrance of hides tanned with sumac and nutgall, shadow striated with light, green the dominant color, metonymy of the city."

    Talismano by Abdelwaheb Meddeb, translated by Jane Kuntz, p 86 of the Dalkey Archive Press paperback

    September 25, 2011