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Scale Insect

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Noun

1. scale insect

small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Scale Insect

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noun
any small homopterous insect of the family Coccidae and related families, which typically live and feed on plants and secrete a protective scale around themselves. Many species, such as the San Jose scale, are important pests

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Scale Insect

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any of various families of small homopteran insects destructive to plants: the females secrete a round, wax scale under which they live and lay their eggs

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Scale Insect

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n.
Any of various small plant-feeding insects of the superfamily Coccoidea that secrete a waxy substance covering the body and are often agricultural pests. Also called coccid.

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