gallflies
- plural of gallfly.
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Centhorhynchus, a beetle which attacks Crucifers, Cynips and allied "gallflies" of Oaks, and the notorious Phylloxera.
From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall
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 Lubbock, John, Sir
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
