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scale insect definition

scale insect

any of various families of small homopteran insects destructive to plants: the females secrete a round, wax scale under which they live and lay their eggs

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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