Cynips

NOUN
  1. type genus of the Cynipidae: gall wasps
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  • The silkworm, the lac insect, and the bee need no apologist; a gallnut produced by the puncture of a cynips on a Syrian oak is a necessary ingredient in the ink I am writing with, and from my windows I recognize the grain of the kermes and the cochineal in the gay habiliments of the holiday groups beneath them. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)
  • A vegetable secretion and concretion is thus produced on oak-leaves by the gall-insect, and by the cynips in the bedeguar of the rose; and by the young grasshopper on many plants, by which the animal surrounds itself with froth. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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