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noun
Any immobile insect that anchors a strawlike mouthpart to feed on plant phloem or sap, of infraorder Coccomorpha or superfamily Coccoidea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, entomology, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: greenhouse bug
Antonyms: none provided
noun
an insect active in all stages
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: scale insect
Narrower terms: brown soft scale, Coccus hesperidum
History
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