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Definition of Gallfly
1. Noun. Small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants.
Generic synonyms: Wasp
Group relationships: Cynipidae, Family Cynipidae
2. Noun. Fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants.
Generic synonyms: Dipteran, Dipteron, Dipterous Insect, Two-winged Insects
Group relationships: Cecidomyidae, Family Cecidomyidae
Specialized synonyms: Hessian Fly, Mayetiola Destructor
3. Noun. Any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed.
Definition of Gallfly
1. n. An insect that deposits its eggs in plants, and occasions galls, esp. any small hymenopteran of the genus Cynips and allied genera. See Illust. of Gall.
Definition of Gallfly
1. Noun. Any of various flies which produce galls. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gallfly
1. a small insect [n -FLIES]
Medical Definition of Gallfly
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallfly
Literary usage of Gallfly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Butterflies and Bees: The Insect Folk : Volume II by Margaret Warner Morley (1905)
"No; the gallfly does not look much like a bee or a wasp, but if you were to ...
The truth is, the gallfly is one of those common insects that we know very ..."
2. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer (1880)
"Low- growing plants are occasionally attacked by individuals of the gallfly race,
though their preference seems to be for trees and shrubs, on which they ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"At the time the gallfly is active the majority of leaf bundles are about 2 mm.
in length. The length of the leaf bundle in relation to that of the ..."
4. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia by American Entomological Society, Entomological Society of Philadelphia (1863)
"... I found the pupa of a large gallfly apparently allied to Ct/nips ... in bringing
the gallfly to ..."
5. New Education Readers: A Synthetic and Phonic Word Method by Abraham Jay Demarest, William Maturin Van Sickle (1901)
"It is the home of the gallfly. One day the mother fly made a hole in this twig.
... Some day the little gallfly will come out of his pretty oak home. ..."
6. Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Bookedited by Charles Morris edited by Charles Morris (1921)
"... t'le gallfly, a genus of ... gallfly, produces the hairy excrescences seen
oil the rosebush and the sweet-brier. ..."
7. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"Three kinds of gall insects are often reared in one gall: the true gallfly which
causes the gall, the guests which lay their eggs in the galls caused by the ..."
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