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Definition of Armored scale
1. Noun. Insect having a firm covering of wax especially in the female.
Group relationships: Diaspididae, Family Diaspididae
Specialized synonyms: Aspidiotus Perniciosus, San Jose Scale
Lexicographical Neighbors of Armored Scale
Literary usage of Armored scale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1897)
"The unprotected larva of the San José scale is just as easy to kill as that of
any other armored scale—only, and the difference is important, in scales with ..."
2. Horticulture for Schools by Arnold Valentine Stubenrauch, Milo Nelson Wood, Charles Junius Booth (1922)
"One is known as the armored scale and the other as the lecanium scale. The former
secretes a scale which forms a protective covering separate from the body ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"Thus applied, I have found it to be efficient even against the armored scale-bug
of the orange and lemon, which falls or! in the course of two or three days ..."
4. The Handbook of Industrial Oil Engineering: A Reference Book of Data by John Rome Battle (1920)
"The San Jose scale has an armored scale, with a wax covering underneath. The sprays
used must work in underneath these coverings. They must fill the sucking ..."
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