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# cochineal

«cochineal» in Mova's school dictionary: **A deep red dye made from tiny scale insects that live on…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (cochineal — uncountable; a cochineal insect)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A deep red dye made from tiny scale insects that live on prickly pear cacti, used to colour food, drinks, make-up and cloth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cochineal/#m1)

2) The insect itself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cochineal/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons cochineal was prized by the Aztecs and later shipped to Europe by the Spanish; it coloured British soldiers' red coats. In science and food labels, cochineal (carmine, E120) shows that natural colours can come from animals, so it is not vegetarian.

### examples

- Cochineal makes a bright red colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cochineal/#x1)
- The pink icing was coloured with cochineal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cochineal/#x2)
- Cochineal comes from tiny insects that live on cacti. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cochineal/#x3)
- The Aztecs used cochineal to dye cloth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cochineal/#x4)
- Vegetarians check labels for cochineal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cochineal/#x5)
- It takes thousands of insects to make a little cochineal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cochineal/#x6)

### note

Say «koch-ih-NEEL». Uncountable as a dye. Also called carmine or E120.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cochineal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cochineal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.