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gall 1

(gôl)
n.
1. Outrageous insolence; effrontery: After borrowing my car, he had the gall to complain about its seats.
2.
a. Bitterness of feeling; rancor.
b. Something bitter to endure: the gall of defeat.
3. See bile.
[Middle English galle, gallbladder, bile, courage, from Old English gealla, galla, bile; see ghel- in Indo-European roots.]

gall 2

(gôl)
n.
1. A skin sore caused by friction and abrasion: a saddle gall.
2.
a. Exasperation; vexation.
b. The cause of such vexation.
v. galled, gall·ing, galls
v.tr.
1. To irk or exasperate; vex: It galled me to have to wait outside.
2. To wear away or make sore by abrasion; chafe:
v.intr.
To become worn or sore by abrasion.
[Middle English galle, from Old English gealla, possibly from Latin galla, nutgall.]

gall 3

(gôl)
n.
An abnormal growth of plant tissue caused by an organism, such as an insect, mite, or bacterium, or by a wound.
[Middle English galle, from Old French, from Latin galla, nutgall.]
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Adj. 1. galled - painful from having the skin abraded
painful - causing physical or psychological pain; "worked with painful slowness"
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With potentially disastrous effects resulting from galled fasteners seizing or even being subject to a fatigue breakage, the manufacturing industry players are advised to counter this threat.
Galling 'a serious issue in manufacturing'
Histochemical analyses were performed on samples embedded in polyethylenoglycol (PEG 6000) (Ferreira, Teixeira, & Isaias, 2014) and sectioned in a rotary microtome at a thickness of 25 pm, or on free-hand sections (using razor blades) obtained from recently collected non-galled and galled samples.
Perfiles estructurales, histoquimicos y fotosinteticos de las agallas inducidas por Eugeniamyia dispar (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) en las hojas de Eugenia uniflora (Myrtaceae)
(A) Vertical sectional view of a portion of the galled shoot showing the inflamed axillary position (*) (bar = 1 mm).
Host associations of gall-inducing Prodiplosis longifila (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Bolivia: implications for its use as a biological control agent for Jatropha gossypiifolia (Euphorbiaceae)
Fabaceae and Myrtaceae were the plant families with the greatest richness of gall (4 and 6 morphotypes, respectively), and the greatest number of galled plant species (four and three, respectively) (Table 1 ).
Insect galls of Restinga de Marambaia (Barra de Guaratiba, Rio de Janeiro, RJ)/ Galhas de insetos da Restinga de Marambaia (Barra de Guaratiba, Rio de Janeiro, RJ)
Galled leaves, even when reaching maturity, may behave as a sink organ rather than as a source of nutrients for the plant (Constantino et al., 2009).
Edge Effects on Gall-Inducing Insect Mikiola fagi (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in the Oriental Beach Forests
Use of these plots for a parallel experiment precluded our ability of accurately measure damage at the individual ramet level for our oPposited and galled stems.
Evidence for plant-mediated competition between defoliating and gall-forming specialists attacking solidago altissima
Fifteen plant families were found galled (Anacardiaceae, Asteraceae, Bignoniaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Fabaceae, Flacourtiaceae, Malvaceae, Mimosaceae, Myrtaceae, Rhamnaceae, Rubiaceae, Sapindaceae, Smilacaceae, Tiliaceae, and Verbenaceae).
Diversidad de artropodos agalladores en el neotropico subtropical: Sabana de Espinilho y bosques riparios comparados
The field site was surveyed, and 64 moderately or heavily galled ([approximately equal to]20% of leaves galled) trees [less than]3.5 m tall (to allow access to all parts of the tree) were selected.
Avoidance of high-endophyte space by gall-forming insects
They classified plants as resistant if less than 50% of the root system was galled and less than 50% of the root system was covered with egg masses.
Combining ability analysis of resistance to southern root-knot nematode in red clover
Larvae pupate inside galled leaves both on the tree and on the soil surface.
Trunk injection of systemic insecticides to control stem and leaf gall wasps, Josephiella species (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae), on Chinese banyan (Rosales: Moraceae) in Hawaii
Moreover, assuming the morphological similarity between host leaves and galls in this system, a gradient from non-galled leaves, through non-galled portions of galled leaves, and towards galls should be generated, establishing a morpho-physiological continuum.
Sincronismo de Aspidosperma macrocarpon (Apocynaceae) entre la asignacion de recursos y el establecimiento del inductor de agallas Pseudophacopteron sp. (Hemiptera: Psylloidea)

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