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Definition of Gallnuts
1. gallnut [n] - See also: gallnut
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallnuts
Literary usage of Gallnuts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mesopotamia and Assyria by James Baillie Fraser (1842)
"gallnuts.—Gum Arabic.—Manna.—SECOND DISTRICT—Plains of Assyria.—Spring
Flowers.—Summer.— Common Plants.— Potherbs. — Fruits. — Cultivated Plants. ..."
2. A Classical Technology by John Miller Burnam (1920)
"transmarine: bees-wax, axle-grease; of waters the sweet kinds, every variety of
timbers, pine, fir, juniper, cypress, ashes, gallnuts and fig. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"This acid is contained in the gallnuts of Queráis in ... and in Chinese gallnuts,
the excrescences formed on the branches of a tree growing in Japan, which, ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1877)
"Galls, gallnuts, etc., Government of ... gallnuts and Yellow Seed, Effendi Artin,
Adana. ... gallnuts, Government of Esine, Dardanelles. ..."
5. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1853)
"The substitute for gallnuts, patented by M. ... and used for any of the purposes
in the arts to which gallnuts have been heretofore applied. ..."
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