soft scale

English Thesaurus

1. an insect active in all stages (noun.animal)

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

hyponym	:	brown soft scale, coccus hesperidum,
definition	:	pest on citrus trees (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	coccidae, family coccidae,
definition	:	scale insects (noun.animal)