Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gall-fly.
- noun Some other insect which causes galls; a gallmaker, as the phylloxera.
- noun Specifically, one of the Gallinsecta; a scale-insect.
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Examples
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For each species of Ficus, there would appear to be an individual gall-insect.
Chapter 6 1994
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They go out at night and collect nectar or honey-dew from the gall-insects on oak-trees; for the gall-insect, like love in the old Latin saw, is fruitful both in sweets and bitters, _melle et felle_.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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A vegetable secretion and concretion is thus produced on oak-leaves by the gall-insect, and by the cynips in the bedeguar of the rose; and by the young grasshopper on many plants, by which the animal surrounds itself with froth.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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