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

3 senses of gallfly

Sense 1
gall wasp, gallfly, cynipid wasp, cynipid gall wasp -- (small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants)
       => wasp -- (social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting)

Sense 2
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)

Sense 3
gallfly -- (any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed)
       => insect -- (small air-breathing arthropod)