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Noun Concept
Categories: Animal dyes, Articles with 'species' microformats, Food colorings, Dactylopiidae, Edible insects
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cochineal insect  cochineal  Dactylopius coccus  Coccus cacti  cochineal extract
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Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye WordNet 3.0
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Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
The cochineal is a scale insect in the suborder Sternorrhyncha, from which the natural dye carmine is derived. Wikipedia
Species of insect producing carmine Wikidata
Ptwiki duplication of Q244274 Wikidata
IS A
scale insect
taxonomic group
PART OF
Dactylopius
PARENT TAXON
Dactylopius
SAID TO BE THE SAME AS
cochineal insect
TAXON RANK
species
THIS TAXON IS SOURCE OF
carmine
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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cochineal insect, cochineal, Dactylopius coccus
Wikipedia
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cochineal
Wikidata
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Cochineal, Dactylopius coccus
Wikipedia Redirections
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Coccus cacti, cochineal extract, cochineal insect, Cochineal scale, Dactylopius coccus, Pseudococcus cacti
Wikidata Alias
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cochineal

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