soft scale

English

Noun

soft scale (countable and uncountable, plural soft scales)

  1. (botany, entomology) Any immobile insect that anchors a strawlike mouthpart to feed on plant phloem or sap, of infraorder Coccomorpha or superfamily Coccoidea.
    Synonym: (dated) greenhouse bug

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