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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various wasps of the family Cynipidae whose larvae produce distinctively shaped galls on oaks and other plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hymenopterous gall-insect; one of the Gallicolæ, Cynipidæ, or gall-flies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any insect of the Cynipidae
family , whose larvae damage trees, particularlyoak trees, creatinggalls on the branches.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants
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madmouth commented on the word gall wasp
a.k.a. gallfly
July 3, 2009