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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The wound-gall, an elongated knot or swelling on the stem of the vine, made by the larva of Ampeloglypter sesostris, a curculio one eighth of an inch long, of a reddish-brown color, with a stout head half as long as its body. See cut under Ampeloglypter.
  • noun Any one of the vine leaf-galls. See vine leaf-gall, under vine.

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