• Nutgall

    Full definition of nutgall

    Noun

    nutgall

    (plural nutgalls)
    1. An enlarged growth on a tree formed in response to damage or parasite. Sometimes called just a gall.
      • 1848, John Hannett, Bibliopegia, or, The Art of Bookbinding in all its branches, page 65:In two pints of water boil one ounce of tan, and a like portion of nutgall till reduced to a pint.

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