Dictionary

gallnut en · NOUN

Etymology

From gall + nut. Compare Dutch galnoot.

Meanings

1. A gall on a tree, caused by insects, that resembles a nut.
   • [Y]our hands are always covered with gallnut [translating galla], vitriol, and alum, just like the varnish on a Moor. 2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, page 195:
   • There was the smell of evening in the air, the smell of the fields in the country where they digged up turnips to peel them and eat them when they went out for a walk to Major Barton's, the smell there was in the little wood beyond the pavilion where the gallnuts were. 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

gall-nut ink

Synonyms

gallapple · nutgall

Translations (14)

de Gallapfel (a gall on a tree that resembles a nut) · fr noix de galle (a gall on a tree that resembles a nut) · pt bugalho (a gall on a tree that resembles a nut) · la galla (a gall on a tree that resembles a nut) · es gallarita (a gall on a tree that resembles a nut) · pt galha (a gall on a tree that resembles a nut) · es nuez de agallas (a gall on a tree that resembles a nut) · it noce di galla (a gall on a tree that resembles a nut) · fr chêne (a gall on a tree that resembles a nut) · da galæble (a gall on a tree that resembles a nut) · nl galappel (a gall on a tree that resembles a nut) · ota مازو (a gall on a tree that resembles a nut) · it galla nuciforme (a gall on a tree that resembles a nut) · sv galläpple (a gall on a tree that resembles a nut)