scale insect

English Thesaurus

1. small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	coccid insect,
definition	:	scale insects and mealybugs (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	soft scale,
definition	:	an insect active in all stages (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	wax insect,
definition	:	any of various insects that secrete a waxy substance (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	armored scale,
definition	:	insect having a firm covering of wax especially in the female (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	cochineal, cochineal insect, dactylopius coccus,
definition	:	Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye (noun.animal)