Gallic is an adjective that may describe: * ancient Gaul (Latin: Gallia), roughly corresponding to the territory of modern France **pertaining to the Gauls ** Roman Gaul (1st century BC to 5th century) **

Gallic Empire The Gallic Empire or the Gallic Roman Empire are names used in modern historiography for a breakaway part of the Roman Empire that functioned ''de facto'' as a separate state from 260 to 274. It originated during the Crisis of the Third Century, w ...

(260–273) ** Frankish Gaul (5th to 8th centuries) ** A Latinism for France, the French people, and their customs *

Gallic epoch The Gallic epoch is an obsolete epoch of the Mesozoic Era's Cretaceous, the latter being a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago ( mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Per ...

, an obsolete epoch of the Cretaceous * pertaining to

gall Galls (from the Latin , 'oak-apple') or ''cecidia'' (from the Greek , anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to be ...

, a formation induced by a parasite in plants, **hence the name gallic acid, for a phenolic compound found in these formations 'Gallic' is also a proper noun naming the following ships: * , a paddle wheel steamship * , a cargo steamship

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