| NOUN | animal | scale insect | small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering |
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| Meaning | small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering. | |
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| Narrower | armored scale | insect having a firm covering of wax especially in the female |
| cochineal insect, cochineal, Dactylopius coccus | Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti | |
| soft scale | An insect active in all stages / stages | |
| wax insect | Any of various insects that secrete a waxy substance | |
| Broader | coccid insect | scale insects and mealybugs |
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