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coccid

[ kok-sid ]

noun

  1. any of various related bugs of the superfamily Coccoidea, comprising the scale insects.


coccid

/ ˈ°ìÉ’°ì²õɪ»å /

noun

  1. any homopterous insect of the superfamily Coccoidea, esp any of the family Coccidae, which includes the scale insects
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Origin of coccid1

C19: from New Latin Coccidae; see coccus
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The legislation aimed at mitigating the impacts of the macadamia felted coccid would have provided funding for research and treatment.

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GROUND-PEARL, the glassy secretion forming the pupacase of coccid insects of the genus Margarodes, belonging to the homopterous division of the Hemiptera.

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The Hebrew University men, closer observers, saw the ooze exuding from the coccid bodies.

Mr. Cockerell in Jamaica has noted an interesting Coccid, Icerya rosæ, which is protected by ants; “at the present moment some of these Iceryæ are enjoying life, which would certainly have perished at my hands but for the inconvenience presented by the numbers of stinging ants.â€

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In the male coccid we find a late larval stage with hidden wing-rudiments, the importance of which, for comparison with the caterpillar, will be appreciated later.

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