Cochineal

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  • noun. A red colorant, whose primary constituent is carminic acid, that is made of the dried and pulverized bodies of female cochineal insects and is used to color food and cosmetics.
  • noun. A vivid red.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of a species of insects, the Coccus cacti, found upon several species of Opuntia and other Cactaceæ, especially O. Tuna, O. Ficus-Indica, and Nopalea cochinillifera.
  • noun. The insect which produces the dyestuff known by the same name. See def. 1.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A species of insect (Dactylopius coccus).
  • noun. A vivid red dye made from the bodies of cochineal insects.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a red dyestuff consisting of dried bodies of female cochineal insects
  • noun. Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye
    • Word Usage
    "They'd been growing something called cochineal, which is a-- it was a kind of a-- a bug that grows on"
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    dye  dyestuff  scale insect  
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