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Scale Insect

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering

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Classifications

Entity Type

Unknown—authoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Scale Insects
possessive
Scale Insect's
pluralpossessive
Scale Insects'