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Noun

soft scale (countable and uncountable, plural soft scales)

(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

References

“soft scale”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
soft scale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Coccoidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Coccoidea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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