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Scale insect Moderate

Scale insect has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

Any of the small parasitic insects of the superfamily Coccoidea, that live on plants and sap nutrients from them.

See Also
scale parasitic cotton scale plant coccid diaspidid bark louse coccoidea
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
coccid insect
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
soft scale wax insect armored scale cochineal insect
Rhyming Words
ect dect fect tect lect hect sect exect elect spect eject object inject adject advect expect resect adlect detect aspect
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