different between cochinealred vs cochineal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cochenille, itself probably from Spanish cochinilla, or from Ancient Greek ???????? (kókkinos, “red tint”), from ?????? (kókkos), from Latin coccus (“berry or grain”) (term applied to Kermes quercus, a scale insect used in the production of red dye)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?t???ni(?)l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?t???ni?(?)l/
• Hyphenation: coch?i?neal

Noun

cochineal (countable and uncountable, plural cochineals)

1. (entomology) A species of insect (Dactylopius coccus).
2. A vivid red dye made from the bodies of cochineal insects.

   Synonym: E120

3. The vivid red color of this dye.
   • 2000, Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves, pg. 26

Translations

Adjective

cochineal (not comparable)

1. Possessing a vivid red color, as produced from dying with cochineal.
   • 1997, The Ethiopian Borderlands. Richard Pankhurst. 1997.

     The principal imports arriving by sea, then as previously, were textiles, among them coarse cotton cloth, known as Surat, the Indian port from which they were shipped, as well as blue cotton cloth and cochineal cloth called kemis

   • 1927, Breeze Hill News

     Batavus, of somewhat the same shade, was slightly taller, and perhaps with a little more cochineal color.

Further reading

• cochineal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dactylopius coccus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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