soft scale

/sɔft skeɪl/
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Other forms: soft scales

Definitions of soft scale
  1. noun
    an insect active in all stages
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    types:
    Coccus hesperidum, brown soft scale
    pest on citrus trees
    type of:
    scale insect
    small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering
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