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Scale insect   /skeɪl ˈɪnsˌɛkt/   Listen
Scale insect

noun
1.
Small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering.





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"Scale insect" Quotes from Famous Books



... is ari, the secretion of a scale insect, carteria mexcicana. In the months of July and August it is gathered from the branches of certain trees in the barrancas, rolled by hand into thick brown sticks, and thus preserved for the winter. A small portion ...
— Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) • Carl Lumholtz


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