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n.
Any one of numerous small two-winged flies of the family Ortalidae. The larvae of many of these flies live in fruit; those of others produce galls on various plants.
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A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.
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A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human gallstones.
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A gallfly which deposits its eggs in galls formed by other insects.
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The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.
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A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin.
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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 Gall.
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Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.
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An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.
v. t.
To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable.
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A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.
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Pertaining to, or derived from, galls, nutgalls, and the like.
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A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary.
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