soft scale (English, noun)
expansion: soft scale (countable and uncountable, plural soft scales)
Senses:
topics: biology
botany
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any immobile insect that anchors a strawlike mouthpart to feed on plant phloem or sap, of infraorder Coccomorpha or superfamily Coccoidea.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: soft scales
tags: plural