What is the meaning of COCHINEAL. Phrases containing COCHINEAL
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Garretty is British slang for crazy, mad, very angry.
Refers to the hour that most military personnel have to wake up.
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Really I'M Just Saying
Sad face
Phrs. Not good, of no value. See 'cop' (adj). Cf. 'any cop'.
awsome
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A red dyestuff, used as a substitute for cochineal, archil, etc. It consists of the sodium salt of a complex azo derivative of naphtol.
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A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is sometimes given to other species of Cactaceae.
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The essential coloring principle of cochineal, extracted as a purple-red amorphous mass. It is a glucoside and possesses acid properties; -- hence called also carminic acid.
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A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti).
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A plantation of the nopal for raising the cochineal insect.
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A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting.
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A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.
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The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect (Coccus ilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean. They are round, about the size of a pea, contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used in medicine.
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Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.
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A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.
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