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wax insect
noun
- any of several scale insects that secrete a commercially valuable waxy substance, especially a Chinese scale insect, Ericerus pe-la.
wax insect
noun
- any of various scale insects that secrete wax or a waxy substance, esp the oriental species Ceroplastes ceriferus, which produces Chinese wax
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of wax insect1
First recorded in 1805–15
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See Bo-tree.Fish, species of, at St. Paul Island, i. 316Fitzroy Dry Dock, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, iii. 49Flata limbata, or wax insect of China.
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