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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any one of several species of scale-insects or bark-lice that infest the apple, notably, the oyster-shell bark-louse of the apple (Lepidosaphes ulmi, formerly Mytilaspis pomorum) and the scurfy scale (Chionaspis furfurus).

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