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English
Etymology
From gall + nut. Compare Dutch galnoot.
Noun
gallnut (plural gallnuts)
- A gall on a tree, caused by insects, that resembles a nut.
1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC: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.
2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, page 195:[Y]our hands are always covered with gallnut [translating galla], vitriol, and alum, just like the varnish on a Moor.
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Translations
a gall on a tree that resembles a nut
Further reading
- “gallnut”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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