nutgall

[ nuht-gawl ]

noun

1. a nutlike gall or excrescence, especially one formed on an oak.

nutgall

/ ˈnʌtˌɡɔːl /

noun

1. a nut-shaped gall caused by gall wasps on the oak and other trees

Word History and Origins

Origin of nutgall¹

First recorded in 1585–95; nut + gall ³

Example Sentences

“It’s a really good product for nut farmers and stone fruit farmers,” Mitch Davis, a company spokesman, said of the compost, adding that it also helps control nutgall, a fungal disease that afflicts walnut trees.

From New York Times

"I gather from what you have stated, Mr. Townshend, that you will scarcely consider it worth while to go down to Nutgall, or make any further inquiry into the circumstances of which you have just heard."

From Project Gutenberg

There was really a village called Nutgall; that was the one fact that the respectable person in half-mourning had brought along with his black leather bag and silk umbrella.

From Project Gutenberg

I verily believe, at the time of his disenchantment, my revered tutor would rather that the baronet had been really at Nutgall, and in the humour and condition to wage implacable war against poor Marmaduke, than have given such an opportunity of triumph to the man of Bow Street.

From Project Gutenberg

He is living under the name of Daneton, at Nutgall, a village in Cambridgeshire, near which I reside.

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