Cochineal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COCHINEAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc.
• a scarlet dye used for colouring food, made from the crushed dried bodies of a female scale insect.
• a dye similar to cochineal made from the oak kermes insect (see kermes).
• the scale insect that is used for cochineal, native to Mexico and formerly cultivated on cacti.
• red dye obtained from a Mexican insect, used for food colouring
• a red dyestuff consisting of dried bodies of female cochineal insects
• Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a red dye consisting of the dried bodies of female cochineal insects
• A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.

Words related to COCHINEAL

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Words that contain COCHINEAL

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How to use COCHINEAL in a sentence

• A little bruised cochineal boiled with the vinegar adds much to the appearance of this pickle.
• Colour one-half of the jelly with a few drops of prepared cochineal, and the other half leave as pale as possible.
• To improve the colour of the fruit, a few drops of prepared cochineal may be added, which rather enhances the beauty of this dish.
• The icing may be coloured with strawberry or currant-juice, or with prepared cochineal.
• The prickly pear is indigenous in those places, and by little cultivation will afford sufficient nourishment for the cochineal insects.
• When the plant is perfectly saturated, the cochineal is scraped off with great care.
• Fine cochineal, which has been well dried and properly kept, ought to be of a grey colour inclining to purple.
• It has a soft, cochineal, crimson shade, and is in great demand among the Indians as an ornamental paint.
• Unfortunately, cochineal, while brilliant, is by no means permanent, a single washing of the garment spreading the color through the white texture.
• A dye stuff consisting of female cochineal insects killed and dried by heat.
• In the cochineal case, it was obvious to the court and to the spectators.
• Like the cochineal it would probably, with the addition of a solution of tin, become a good scarlet.
• Cocoa, Toddy, Cherries, Bark, Cork, Cochineal, Cloves, Cinnamon, and Cassia V.
• COCOA, TODDY, CHERRIES, BARK, CORK, COCHINEAL, CLOVES, CINNAMON, AND CASSIA.
• From what countries is the Cochineal brought? From the West Indies, Jamaica, Mexico, and other parts of America.
• The best cochineal comes from Teneriffe, where it was introduced from Honduras in 1835.
• The poison was water, coloured, I should think, with cochineal, and pleasantly flavoured with a little bitter almond.
• The females are placed on the plants about August, and in four months the first crop of cochineal is gathered, two more being produced in the course of the year.
• Some fifty years ago the candy was sold commonly in London, as flat, round cakes, being composed largely of sugar, and coloured with cochineal.
• Set them in a slack oven till tender, take out the cochineal, and pulp the fruit to a marmalade.
• Melt one ounce of spermacetti, soften sufficiently with oil of almonds, color it with two or three grains of powdered cochineal, and pour while warm into small toilet pots.
• Cochineal and its allies, which are such excellent dyes for wool and silk, give only fugitive colors on cotton.
• There are also several products of the animal kingdom dependent on vegetable culture, which might be brought into this category, such as silk and cochineal.
• Attempts have been made here to rear cochineal, as the island abounds with the plant which the insects lie on, but a small bird destroys the insect.

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