GALL MIDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gall midge mean? 

• GALL MIDGE (noun)
  The noun GALL MIDGE has 1 sense:

1. fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants

  Familiarity information: GALL MIDGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GALL MIDGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

gall gnat; gall midge; gallfly

Hypernyms ("gall midge" is a kind of...):

dipteran; dipteron; dipterous insect; two-winged insects (insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gall midge"):

Hessian fly; Mayetiola destructor (small fly whose larvae damage wheat and other grains)

Holonyms ("gall midge" is a member of...):

Cecidomyidae; family Cecidomyidae (gall midges)