wax insect

1. 1.

   any of various insects that secrete a waxy substance

   Broaderscale insect

Questions about wax insect

What does wax insect mean?

wax insect means "any of various insects that secrete a waxy substance".

Is wax insect a common word?

wax 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.