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cochineal

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cochineal

Red dye obtained from the cactus-eating Mexican scale insect Dactylopius coccus, used in colouring food and fabrics. There are approximately 70,000 bugs per pound of cochineal.


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Morrel is utterly ruined; he has lost five ships in two years, has suffered by the bankruptcy of three large houses, and his only hope now is in that very Pharaon which poor Dantes commanded, and which is expected from the Indies with a cargo of cochineal and indigo.
Cochin (he is named Emile- Adolphe-Lucian), which, when anagrammed, gives Cochineal.
 
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