soft scale
noun
Any of various scale insects constituting the family Coccidae, many of which are pests; especially (more fully brown soft scale) Coccus hesperidum, which attacks a wide variety of greenhouse plants and fruit trees.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in John Comstock (1849–1931).
- water balance
- waterball
- water ballast
- water ballet
- water balloon
- water bank
- water baptism
- water bar
- water barge
- water barometer
- water-based
- water bat
- water bath
- water bean
- water bear
- Water Bearer
- water-bearing
- waterbed
- water beech
- water beetle
- water bicycle
- water bike
- water bill
- water binding
- waterbird