"soft scale" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: soft scales [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Botany, Entomology Synonyms: greenhouse bug [dated]
    Sense id: en-soft_scale-en-noun-ZiujrKi~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: biology, botany, entomology, natural-sciences

Inflected forms

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          "Coccoidea",
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