Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gall_midge

1 sense of gall midge

Sense 1
gall midge, gallfly, gall gnat -- (fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants)
       => dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron -- (insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing)