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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any one of several flies of the family Oscinidæ, common upon wheat in Europe and North America, as Oscinis frit, Chlorops tæniopus, and C. lineata.
  • noun The Hessian fly.
  • noun The wheat-midge.
  • noun Improperly, a wheat plant-louse in the winged form.
  • noun The wheat gall-fly, a variety of Isosoma hordei, whose larva is the wheat joint-worm. See joint-worm, 2.

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