blackcurrant gall mite
noun
A minute elongated mite, Cecidophyopsis ribis (family Eriophyidae), which is a pest of currant and gooseberry bushes, especially blackcurrants, living inside the buds and causing the disease ‘big bud’.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828–1901), economic entomologist.
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- Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique
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