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gall: a swelling of plant tissue usu.due to fungi or insect parasites and sometimes forming an important source of tannin
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

gall: a pronounced excrescence of greatly modified tissue structure,arising on plants in response to irritation by a foreign organism,commonly an insect,or some other agent
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

gallbladder: a pear-shaped sac in the interior surface of the right lobe of the liver,in which bile is stored and concentrated
Category: Medicine

galley: large setting stick which holds the type for a whole page
Category: Printing and publishing

galley: Compartment in which cooking and other food preparation is done in ships.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

Gallic: Occurs widely in plants and in tannin. C7 H6O5; C7H6O5.Colourless crystals with one molecule of water, m.p.253 °C, sparingly soluble in water and alcohol. It occurs free in wooden tissue, in gall-nuts and in tea, and is a constituent of the tannins, from which it can be obtained by fermentation or by acid hydrolysis. It gives a blue-black colour with Fe3+ and it is used in the manufacture of inks. On heating it gives pyrogallol. Gallic acid has a limited use as a dyestuffs intermediate and as a source of medicinals. (1)
Category: Chemistry

galliformes: an order of birds of largely terrestrial habits
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

galling: damage to the surface of both surfaces of materials sliding in contact with each other due to local welding of high spots.May result in removal of material from both surfaces
Category: Iron and steel industries

galling: the damaging of one or both metallic surfaces by removal of particles from localized areas during sliding friction
Category: Iron and steel industries

gallium: chemical element: atomic number 31
Category: Chemistry

gallium: obtained as by-product of metals and not extracted directly from one particular ore
Category: Various industries and crafts

gallocyanine: a dye from nitrosodimethylaniline and gallic acid; formula C15H12O5N2
Category: Chemistry

galloon: Lace having both edges scalloped.
Category: Various industries and crafts

gallop: is an accelerated canter; the movement is the same as the canter.
Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

gallotannin: a tannin occurring especially in extracts from gall and yielding gallic acid on hydrolysis
Category: Botany and zoology

gallow: The structure from which the otter boards are hung when not in use and which support the warps when the net is towed.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

gallows: The structure from which the otter boards are hung when not in use and which support the warps when the net is towed.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

legally: person unable to understand the information relevant to making a decision about a treatment,admission to a care facility or personal assistance service and unable to appreciate the forseeable consequences of a decision or lack of decision
Category: Management in the public and private sector

pyrogallol: developer
Category: General

stonegall: a clay concretion found in certain sandstones
Category: The cosmos

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