wound gall

English

Noun

wound gall (plural wound galls)

  1. An elongated swollen or tuberous gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small reddish-brown weevil (Ampeloglypter sesostris) whose larvae inhabit the galls.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for wound gall in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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