coccid insect

English Thesaurus

1. scale insects and mealybugs (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	homopteran, homopterous insect,
definition	:	insects having membranous forewings and hind wings (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	scale insect,
definition	:	small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	mealy bug, mealybug,
definition	:	scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	coccoidea, superfamily coccoidea,
definition	:	scale insects and mealybugs (noun.animal)