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scale insect is a noun meaning "small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering". It carries one recorded sense.
small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for scale insect come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.