Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In chem., pertaining to or derived from carmine, the coloring principle of cochineal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine.
- adjective Same as
Carmine , 3.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to, or derived from,
carmine .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I dyed the red sky forming part of the background of this canvas with cochineal [the minute insect with naturally produces carminic acid, and was an important export industry for Oaxaca during colonial times].
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Also interesting was page 121 and the chapter titled The Bugs In Your Candy which is about color additives in processed foods like cochineal extract also known as carmine or carminic acid which is made from dead bodies of small bugs harvested mainly in Peru and the Canary Islands.
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I dyed the red sky forming part of the background of this canvas with cochineal [the minute insect with naturally produces carminic acid, and was an important export industry for Oaxaca during colonial times].
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Neither cochineal nor carmine/ carminic acid/ E120 the name of the dye obtained from the cochineal insects is mentioned on the ingredients.
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Purple Smarties are dyed with cochineal carminic acid, which is made from ground-up pregnant Cochineal insects.
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Purple Smarties are dyed with cochineal carminic acid, which is made from ground-up pregnant Cochineal insects.
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Take carminic acid, a red dye extracted from pregnant scale insects; citric acid, made from fungus fermentation; and gelatin, made from the bones of livestock.
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Food grade cochineal is derived from carminic acid, the pigment producing material in cochineal.
Alkermes: The Scarlet Elixir Michelle Krell Kydd 2008
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Food grade cochineal is derived from carminic acid, the pigment producing material in cochineal.
Archive 2008-05-01 Michelle Krell Kydd 2008
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Take carminic acid, a red dye extracted from pregnant scale insects; citric acid, made from fungus fermentation; and gelatin, made from the bones of livestock.
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