coccid insect

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   scale insects and mealybugs

   Broaderhomopterous insect

   Narrowerscale insectmealybug

   Part ofCoccoidea

Questions about coccid insect

What does coccid insect mean?

coccid insect means "scale insects and mealybugs".

Is coccid insect a common word?

coccid insect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.