| 单词 | scale insect |
| 释义 | scale insect (once / 103679 pages) n WORD FAMILY scale insect: scale insects USAGE EXAMPLESThe scale insects may need the ants as much as the ants need the scale insects. The Guardian(Dec 02, 2016) Then a parasite of the scale insect was imported from Australia, a small lady beetle called the vedalia. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring(1962) Scale insects, white fly and mealy bugs, in particular, can multiply indoors and spread to healthy plants. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2015) n small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering Hypo|Hyper soft scale an insect active in all stages wax insectany of various insects that secrete a waxy substance armored scaleinsect having a firm covering of wax especially in the female Dactylopius coccus, cochineal, cochineal insectMexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye Coccus hesperidum, brown soft scalepest on citrus trees Aspidiotus perniciosus, San Jose scalesmall east Asian insect naturalized in the United States that damages fruit trees coccid insect scale insects and mealybugs |
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