Usually means: Bright red mineral, mercury sulfide.
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  1. cinnabar: Merriam-Webster
  2. cinnabar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cinnabar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cinnabar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cinnabar: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cinnabar, cinnabar: Wordnik
  7. cinnabar: Wiktionary
  8. cinnabar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cinnabar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cinnabar: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cinnabar: Dictionary.com
  12. cinnabar: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Cinnabar (disambiguation), Cinnabar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cinnabar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. cinnabar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. cinnabar: Rhymezone
  17. Cinnabar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cinnabar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. cinnabar: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. cinnabar: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cinnabar: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. cinnabar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cinnabar: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cinnabar: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Beading Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cinnabar: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cinnabar: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Cinnabar: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  3. CINNABAR: The Mineral Gallery
  4. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cinnabar: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cinnabarine as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cinnabar)

noun:  A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion.
noun:  A bright red colour tinted with orange.
noun:  (countable) A species of moth, Tyria jacobaeae, having red patches on its predominantly black wings.
noun:  (in “Cinnabar Panacea”) The Elixir of Life.
adjective:  Of a bright red colour tinted with orange.

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