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cochineal insect n. Any of several red scale insects of the family Dactylopiidae that feed on cacti, especially the prickly pear, and range from the southwest United States to Central America.
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a red dye prepared from the dried bodies of the females of the cochineal insect, Dactylopius coccus, which lives on cactuses of Mexico, Central America, and other warm regions. ... Cochineal is used to produce scarlet, crimson, orange, and other tints and to prepare pigments such as lake and carmine (qq.v.).
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The blood-red allure of lipstick is a gift of a parasitic insect that infests cactus plants, principally in Mexico and Peru. It has been known since Aztec and Mayan times that, when boiled, the body of the cochineal insect dissolves into a deep crimson dye.
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A tiny insect that feeds on a few species of Prickly Pear Cacti (Opuntia sp.). It burrows into the areole and emits a fuzzy, sticky white substance. It will eventually kill the plant if left untreated. Cochineal, if squished, will produced a crimson red liquid that has been used for centuries as a red dye.
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Food industries were aggressively opposed to the idea of writing "insect based" on the label and they finally agreed to simply putting "carmine". ... Carmine (pronounced /ˈkɑrmɪn/ or /ˈkɑrmaɪn/), also called Crimson Lake, Cochineal, Natural Red 4, C.I. 75470, or E120, is a pigment of a bright red color obtained from...
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It has become commercially valuable again,[7] although most consumers are unaware that the phrases "cochineal extract", "carmine", "crimson lake", "natural red 4", "C.I. 75470", "E120", or even "natural colouring" refer to a dye that is derived from an insect.
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Female cochineal insects are brushed from the cactus pads, dried, and the bright red pigments are extracted from the dried bodies. One pound of dye represents about 70,000 insect bodies. Cochineal-laden cacti were introduced into Australia for this valuable dye with disastrous consequences.
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Cochineal Insect, a scale insect traditionally used by Native Americans to make a crimson dye called cochineal. Spanish explorers in the 1550s brought cochineal from Mexico back to ... The adult female cochineal insect is 2 to 5 mm (0.1 to 0.2 in) long with a distinctly segmented, purplish red or carmine-colored body.
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