oak apple

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oak apple

noun oak apples · oak-apple

A spherical type of oak gall, produced by an oak gall wasp (tribe Cynipini). [T]he small Apples which I have often observ'd to grow on the leaves of an Oak call'd Oak-apples […] are nothing but the Matrices of an Insect, as I elsewhere show.

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@misc{oak_apple_2026,
  title = {oak apple},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/oak%20apple},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}