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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Gallflies

(Zool.)

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

Noun.

The insect that punctures plants and occasions galls; the cynips.

gallfly ‎(plural gallflies)

gall wasp — see gall wasp