Definition of "galls" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gall. (verb)

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• "Swellings called galls sometimes appear on leaves, leafstalks, succulent shoots, or nuts of the current season's growth of hickory and pecan."
• "She went in to call the galls, and I sot thar, shiverin all over so I couldn't hardly speak if I tried to, -- but I didn't say nothin."
• "For instance, he implies that the beauty of the oak galls is something that was meant to bloom in the flower, that the galls are the scarlet sins of the tree, the tree's Ode to Dejection, yet he must have known that they are the work of an insect and are as healthy"