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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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