soft scale

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   an insect active in all stages

   Broaderscale insect

   Narrowerbrown soft scale

   Part ofCoccidae

Questions about soft scale

What does soft scale mean?

soft scale means "an insect active in all stages".

Is soft scale a common word?

soft scale 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.