English Dictionary

gall

IPA（発音記号）

/ɡɔːl/

名詞

可算名詞

(countable, phytopathology) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.

日本語の意味

植物の表面に現れる、昆虫の幼虫が生きた組織に侵入することによって生じる水疱や腫瘤状の突起（特にカシノキガルアブによって引き起こされるもの）

The old oak branch was dotted with a large brown gall where the wasp larvae had burrowed.

古い樫の枝には、ワスプの幼虫が潜り込んでできた大きな茶色の虫こぶが点在していた。

意味（1）

(countable, phytopathology) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.

Even so, Redi retained a belief that in certain other cases—the origin of parasites inside the human or animal body or of grubs inside of oak galls—there must be spontaneous generation. Bit by bit the evidence grew against such views. In 1670 Jan Swammerdam, painstaking student of the insect’s life cycle, suggested that the grubs in galls were enclosed in them for the sake of nourishment and must come from insects that had inserted their semen or their eggs into the plants.

意味（2）

(countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.

But first for your Line. First note, that you are to take care that your hair be round and clear, and free from galls, or scabs, or frets: for a well- chosen, even, clear, round hair, of a kind of glass-colour, will prove as strong as three uneven scabby hairs that are ill-chosen, and full of galls or unevenness. You shall seldom find a black hair but it is round, but many white are flat and uneven; therefore, if you get a lock of right, round, clear, glass-colour hair, make much of it.

galls （ plural ）