NOUN | animal | coccid insect | scale insects and mealybugs |
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Meaning | scale insects and mealybugs. | |
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Member of | Coccoidea, superfamily Coccoidea | scale insects and mealybugs |
Narrower | mealybug, mealy bug | scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion |
scale insect | small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering | |
Broader | homopterous insect, homopteran | insects having membranous forewings and hind wings |
Spanish | insecto cóccido |
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