cochineal insect
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cochineal insect
First recorded in 1795–1805
Example Sentences
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The cactus is cultivated for the production of the cochineal insect.
From Southern Spain by Calvert, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
Meal′y-bug, a small species of cochineal insect covered with a while powdery substance resembling meal or flour.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
In Mexico we have the cochineal insect, which is a scale bug that lives on a cactus that grows in Mexico.
From The Insect Folk by Morley, Margaret Warner
Artificial naphthol-scarlet is abolishing the culture of the cochineal insect.
From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips
Most of our domesticated animals have given rise to numerous and distinct races, but those which cannot be easily subjected to selection must be excepted—such as cats, the cochineal insect, and the hive-bee.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles
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