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English noun: scale insect

1. scale insect (animal) small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering


Broader (hypernym)coccid insect


Narrower (hyponym)armored scale, cochineal, cochineal insect, Dactylopius coccus, soft scale, wax insect









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