Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

soft scale

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English

Syllables: soft- s-cale
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any immobile insect that anchors a strawlike mouthpart to feed on plant phloem or sap, of infraorder Coccomorpha or superfamily Coccoidea.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

soft scales (plural)

Synonyms

greenhouse bug

Questions

What does soft scale mean?: Any immobile insect that anchors a strawlike mouthpart to feed on plant phloem or sap, of infraorder Coccomorpha or superfamily Coccoidea.

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