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armored scale

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Noun1.armored scale - insect having a firm covering of wax especially in the female
scale insect - small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering
Aspidiotus perniciosus, San Jose scale - small east Asian insect naturalized in the United States that damages fruit trees


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Gar have heavy, interlocking ganoid scales, but a cousin, the bowfin, or mudfish, is nearly as ancient and lacks hard, armored scales.
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