soft scale
soft scale · soft scales
Any immobile insect that anchors a strawlike mouthpart to feed on plant phloem or sap,…Any immobile insect that anchors a strawlike mouthpart to feed on plant phloem or sap, of infraorder Coccomorpha or superfamily Coccoidea.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)Any immobile insect that anchors a strawlike mouthpart to feed on plant phloem or sap, of infraorder Coccomorpha or superfamily Coccoidea.
More definitions
- an insect active in all stages
Forms
plural: soft scales| Singular | soft scale |
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Synonyms
1 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable