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Cochineal Insect

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Noun

1. cochineal, cochineal insect, dactylopius coccus

Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cochineal Insect

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noun
a Mexican homopterous insect, Dactylopius coccus, that feeds on cacti
another word for cochineal (sense 1)

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Cochineal Insect

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any of a family (Dactylopiidae) of scale insects, esp. one (Dactylopius coccus) that has a brilliant-red body fluid, feeds on certain cactuses, is found chiefly in Mexico, and was formerly much used as a source of cochineal

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cochineal Insect

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n.
Any of several scale insects of the family Dactylopiidae, especially Dactylopius coccus, that feed on prickly pear cacti and range from the southwest United States to Central America.

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