pit scale
1pit scale — any of various small oval shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus (oak wax scale or oak scale), or covered with a… …
2pit scale — noun : one of several scales of the genus Asterolecanium that cause serious injury to oaks * * * any of various small oval shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy …
3pit-making scale — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: pit (I) : pit scale …
4Scale insect — Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous–recent …
5Scale pit — Scale pit. См. Окалинная раковина. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) …
6Pit-Sawers — A term used to describe small scale (usually illegal) loggers in Liberia. (Pit sawing is a crude method of cutting planks from a log.) Liberia is electronically tagging its trees to prevent logging revenue falling into the wrong hands †, Richard… …
7oak wax scale. — See under pit scale. Also called oak scale. * * * …
8oak wax scale. — See under pit scale. Also called oak scale …
9Open-pit mining — El Chino, located near Silver City, New Mexico, is an open pit copper mine …
10Silver Pit — The Silver Pit is a long valley in the bed of the North Sea, 45 km (27 miles) east of Spurn Head in England. In origin, it is probably a tunnel valley (Benn Evans fig.9.27) which was kept free of periglacial deposits by the Wash River when the… …
