Oak Apple Gall

| View Cart ⇗ | Info

“Gall, or Oak-apple, produced by Cynips quercus-inanis, showing the internal cobwebby structure. Gall: a vegetable excrescence produced by the deposit of the egg of an insect in the bark or leaves of a plant, ordinarily to to the action of some virus deposited by the female along with the egg, but often to the irritation of the larva.” -Whitney, 1911

Source

William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)

Downloads

TIFF (full resolution)

2400×2177, 1.4 MiB

Large GIF

1024×928, 219.5 KiB

Medium GIF

640×580, 108.9 KiB

Small GIF

320×290, 37.0 KiB