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Scale insect

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  1. 1
    Any of the small parasitic insects of the superfamily Coccoidea that live on plants and sap nutrients from them.

    "Male scale insects are mostly haploid, undergo an unusual metamorphosis, and feed only in the first two instars."

  2. 2
    small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering wordnet

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