Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Coccidæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of very many
insects of the superfamilyCoccoidea (and especially of the family Coccidae) ; the scale insects andmealybugs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Coccidae, family name, from Coccus, type genus, from Greek kokkos, grain.]
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Examples
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The leg and wing rudiments of the male coccid (pp. 20-1) beneath the cuticle of the second instar are strictly comparable to imaginal buds, and these are present in one instar of what is generally regarded as an exopterygote life-history.
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In the male coccid we find a late larval stage with hidden wing-rudiments, the importance of which, for comparison with the caterpillar, will be appreciated later.
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