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SCALE INSECTS

"SCALE INSECTS" is a plural of: scale insect.


Specialty Definition: SCALE INSECTS

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

Hemipterous insects sucking the sap of leaves, canes and stems of the vine, often immobile during their adult stage. They debilitate the plants and favour the development of a fungus disease sooty mould ). The most important species attacking vines are various mealy bugs ( heliococcus bohemicus, phenacoccus aceris, planococcus citri, pseudococcus adonidum ) and scales ( eulacanium corni, eulecanium persicae, pulvinaria betulae ). Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SCALE INSECTS

English words defined with "SCALE INSECTS": coccid insect, Coccidae, Coccoideafamily CoccidaeHomopteraOrange scaleRodolia cardinalissuborder Homoptera, superfamily CoccoideavedaliaWax insect, whitefly. (references)

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Modern Translation: SCALE INSECTS

Language Translations for "SCALE INSECTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

skjoldlus (scale insect). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

schildluis (scale insect). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kilpikirva (scale insect). (various references)

   

French

  

cochenilles de la vigne. (various references)

   

German

  

Schildläuse, Rebenschildläuse. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κοκκοειδή, κοχενίλλη, ψευδόκοκκος του αμπελιού. (various references)

   

Italian

  

cocciniglia della vite. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alescay insectsay

   

Portuguese

  

cochonilhas da vinha. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cochinillas de la viña. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sköldlöss. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SCALE INSECTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-l-n-s-s-s-t"

-2 letters: accentless, essentials, lacinesses.

-3 letters: acescents, canticles, cineastes, classiest, ecstasies, essential, latencies, saliences, saltiness, scaliness, scentless, stainless, staleness.

-4 letters: accesses, acescent, ascetics, calcines, calcites, canticle, celestas, cenacles, centesis, centiles, cineaste, cineasts, classics, classist, clastics, cleanest, cleanses, easiness, ecclesia, elastics, elastins, elenctic, etesians, laciness, lateness, licences, licenses, nailsets, salience, salients, saltines, saltness, sanicles, scaliest, scanties.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-l-n-s-s-s-t"
 

+2 letters: criticalnesses.

 

+3 letters: practicalnesses.

 

+4 letters: accidentalnesses, eclaircissements.

 

+5 letters: complicatednesses, inaccessibilities, practicablenesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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