gall-nut

  • 1gall|nut — «GL NUHT», noun. a nutlike gall on plants, especially on oaks …

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  • 2gall-nut — n. Nut gall, gall …

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  • 3gall-nut — …

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  • 4gall — 1) , «a (L). A gall nut 2) , in, o, «us (L). A chicken, cock …

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  • 5gall — I. n. 1. (Anat.) Bile. 2. Bitterness, rancor, acerbity, spite, malice, maliciousness, malignity. 3. Nutgall, gall nut. II. v. a. 1. Chafe, fret, excoriate, hurt by rubbing. 2. Provoke, vex, irritate, tease, exasperate, ince …

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  • 6nut|gall — «NUHT GL», noun. a lump or ball that swells up, especially on an oak tree, where the tree has been injured by an insect; any one of various galls resembling a nut …

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  • 7Gall — For other uses, see Gall (disambiguation). Kalanchoë infected with crown gall using Agrobacterium tumefaciens …

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  • 8nut-gall — /ˈnʌt gɔl/ (say nut gawl) noun 1. a nut like gall or excrescence, especially one formed on an oak. 2. → Aleppo gall …

  • 9Iron gall ink — Oak galls and iron(II) sulfate, ingredients of iron gall ink Iron gall ink (also known as iron gall nut ink or oak gall ink) is a purple black or brown black ink made from iron salts and tannic acids from vegetable sources. It was the st …

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  • 10oak gall — noun A gall produced by an oak by a wasp larva. Syn: gall nut, oak apple, oak leaf gall …

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