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oyster shell scale
oys·ter shell scale


noun 
Definition:
 
sap-sucking insect pest: an insect pest of shade trees and shrubs that in its wingless and eyeless adult form lives under an impenetrable white shell and sucks the sap of its host. Latin name Lepidosaphes ulmi.
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