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San Jose scale   /sæn hˌoʊzˈeɪ skeɪl/   Listen
San Jose scale

noun
1.
Small east Asian insect naturalized in the United States that damages fruit trees.  Synonym: Aspidiotus perniciosus.





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"San jose scale" Quotes from Famous Books



... need not pause with the other four hundred and more insect citizens of the apple-tree. Some of them, as the San Jose scale, are not peculiarly apple-tree insects. My tree has another crew of inhabitants, and to this company we may ...
— The Apple-Tree - The Open Country Books--No. 1 • L. H. Bailey


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