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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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