What is the meaning of COCHINEAL. Phrases containing COCHINEAL
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n 1. One that is remarkable or extraordinary, as in size or quality: had a dilly of a fight. 2. Deal: What's the dilly?
Noun. A person who is prone to having accidents or mishaps. Occasionally extended to walking disaster area.
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Money. Can use a variation to describe someone possessing any amount of money on them as being "rocked up". Circa early 1970's
Noun. 1. A thief. 2. A tendency to steal.
Sergeant−major's coffee is American military slang for coffee with milk.
A small stream or rivulet.
Blunt is slang for cannabis.
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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 bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.
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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 sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.
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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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Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.
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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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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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