coccid in English
noun
1
a homopteran insect of the family Coccidae ; a scale insect.
The tiny adult males are winged but the female coccids remain in the galls all their lives.
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1. As therefore, the above-mentioned Kermes vermilio is the undoubted representative of the old dye-producing Kermes of the Persians and Arabs, and as it is also undoubtedly a true Coccid and not Aphidian, it is right that the generic name of Kermes should be attached to the Coccid family, and that some other should be found for those Aphidians at