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gall wasp

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gall wasp
n.
Any of various wasps of the family Cynipidae whose larvae produce distinctively shaped galls on oaks and other plants.
gall wasp
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any small solitary wasp of the family Cynipidae and related families that produces galls in plant tissue, which provide shelter and food for the larvae
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Noun1.gall waspgall wasp - small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants
cynipid gall wasp, cynipid wasp, gallfly
wasp - social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting
Cynipidae, family Cynipidae - a family of Hymenoptera


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A biologist who spent the first part of his career as an unobtrusive cataloger of gall wasps, Kinsey was, depending on whom you ask, either the harbinger or the catalyst of the sexual revolution.
Doctor sex, Ph.D.: are we all Kinseyans now? by Sanchez, Julian / Reason
DURING THE FIRST 20 years of his career, Alfred Kinsey became the world's leading authority on the gall wasp, a nonstinging insect about the size of an ant.
SEX, SOPHISTICATION, SELL BIOPIC 'KINSEY' by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
From Harvard, he joined the faculty at Indiana and remained there for the rest of his life, first studying gall wasps and then sex.
Alfred C. Kinsey: Sex the Measure of All Things; A Biography by Bullough, Vern L. / The Journal of Sex Research
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