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    COCCID INSECT

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Scale insects and mealybugsplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("coccid insect" is a kind of...):

    homopteran; homopterous insect (insects having membranous forewings and hind wings)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coccid insect"):

    scale insect (small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering)

    mealy bug; mealybug (scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees)

    Holonyms ("coccid insect" is a member of...):

    Coccoidea; superfamily Coccoidea (scale insects and mealybugs)

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