English Explanatory Dictionary

scale insect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

scale insect scale insects

Synonyms

scale
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