gallfly
noun
any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants, causing the formation of galls.
gallflies
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pluralof gallfly.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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To this order belong the gallflies, the sawflies, the ichneumons, and, above all, the ants and bees.
From On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Sir John Lubbock
Centhorhynchus, a beetle which attacks Crucifers, Cynips and allied "gallflies" of Oaks, and the notorious Phylloxera.
From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward
Rhodites, rō-dī′tēz, n. a genus of gallflies infesting the rose.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
