Usually means: Abnormal growths on plants, trees.
Definitions Related words Phrases Mentions Lyrics History Easter eggs (New!)
We found 19 dictionaries that define the word galls:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. galls: Merriam-Webster
  2. galls: Collins English Dictionary
  3. galls: Vocabulary.com
  4. Gall's, Galls, galls: Wordnik
  5. galls: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. galls: Wiktionary
  7. galls: Dictionary.com
  8. galls: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Galls: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. galls: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. galls: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. galls: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. galls: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. galls: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GALLS: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Galls: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See gall as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Gall)

noun:  (uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity; chutzpah.
noun:  (anatomy, archaic, countable) A gallbladder.
noun:  (physiology, archaic, uncountable) Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
noun:  (figurative, uncountable) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
noun:  (countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
noun:  (pathology, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
noun:  (figurative, uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.
noun:  (countable, technical) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
verb:  (ergative) To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To bother or trouble.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To exasperate.
verb:  (transitive, technical) To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To scoff; to jeer.
noun:  (phytopathology) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by various pathogens, especially the burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, such as that of the common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii).
noun:  A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
verb:  (transitive) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
noun:  A surname.
▸ Also see gall

Phrases:

Adjectives:




Words similar to galls

Usage examples for galls

Idioms related to galls

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular adjectives describing galls

Words that often appear near galls

Rhymes of galls

Invented words related to galls

Similar:
Phrases:

Adjectives:





Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux