Usually means: Red dye made from insects.
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  1. cochineal: Merriam-Webster
  2. cochineal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cochineal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cochineal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cochineal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cochineal, cochineal: Wordnik
  7. cochineal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cochineal: Wiktionary
  9. cochineal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cochineal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cochineal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cochineal: Dictionary.com
  13. cochineal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cochineal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cochineal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cochineal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cochineal: Rhymezone
  18. Cochineal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cochineal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. cochineal: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cochineal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cochineal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. cochineal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. cochineal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cochineal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. cochineal: Medical dictionary

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  1. cochineal: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cochineal)

noun:  (countable) A scale insect of the species Dactylopius coccus, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, which lives on prickly pear cacti (genus Opuntia).
noun:  (uncountable) A vivid red dye made from the dried bodies of cochineal insects.
noun:  (uncountable) The vivid red colour of this dye.
adjective:  Possessing a vivid red colour, as or as if produced from dyeing with cochineal dye (noun sense 2).

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