Kermes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for KERMES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a red cochineal-like dye made from dried bodies of certain female insects of Mediterranean; the evergreen oak on which these insects feed
• a red dye obtained from the crushed dried bodies of a female scale insect, used for colouring fabrics and manuscripts.
• the scale insect from which kermes is obtained, forming berry-like galls on the kermes oak.
• dried bodies of female scale insects
• The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect (Coccus ilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean. They are round, about the size of a pea, contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used in medicine.
• A small European evergreen oak (Quercus coccifera) on which the kermes insect (Coccus ilicis) feeds.

Words related to KERMES

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Words that contain KERMES

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How to use KERMES in a sentence

• This is the kermes, or gronilla of Spain, about which so much has been said in endeavouring to identify it with the grona fina.
• Thus kermes gave way to cochineal, woad to indigo, and so on.

Similar words containing KERME without suffix s

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