[dye] Kermes is a red dye derived from the dried bodies of the females of a scale insect in the genus Kermes, primarily Kermes vermilio. The insects live on the sap of certain trees, especially Kermes oak tree near the Mediterranean region. The English color names crimson and carmine are derived from the word kermes, and many other language...
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[insect] Kermes is a genus of scale insects in the order Hemiptera. They feed on the sap of evergreen oaks; the females produce a red dye, also called `kermes`, that is the source of natural crimson. The word `kermes` is derived from Arabic/Persian qirmiz (قرمز), which means `red` or `crimson` (probably via Middle Persian, from (ultimat...
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brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects
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• (n.) 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 us...
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a species of scale insect in the family Kermesidae (order Homoptera), the common name of which also represents the red dye that is obtained from the ... [1 related articles]
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1. <zoology> 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 colouring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and...
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Ker'mes noun [ Arabic & Persian
girmiz . See
Crimson , and confer
Alkermes .]
1. (Zoology) 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 ...
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A red dye that comes from the insect Coccus ilicis which inhabits an evergreen oak growing in southern Europe and orth Africa. Used in Roman and medieval times. It was rendered more or less obsolete by cochineal and Brazil wood. The name kermes is Persian, the Old English name for it is grain.
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a red dye formerly prepared from the dried bodies of the females of a scale insect, Kermes ilices, which lives on small, evergreen oaks of the Mediterranean region. · the oak itself, of the genus Quercus coccifera.
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