coccid

American

[kok-sid] / ˈkɒk sɪd /

noun

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

coccid British

/ ˈkɒksɪd /

noun

any homopterous insect of the superfamily Coccoidea, esp any of the family Coccidae, which includes the scale insects

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Etymology

Origin of coccid

cocc(us) + -id ²

Example Sentences

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The legislation aimed at mitigating the impacts of the macadamia felted coccid would have provided funding for research and treatment.

From Washington Times

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.”

From Project Gutenberg

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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