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- Opuntia (redirect from Cactus fig)body and eggs to make the red dye. Cochineal is used primarily as a red food colouring and for cosmetics. The cochineal dye was used by the Aztec and Maya...60 KB (6,224 words) - 20:10, 21 May 2024
- Opuntia ficus-indica (redirect from Indian Fig Opuntia)Opuntia ficus-indica, the Indian fig opuntia, fig opuntia, or prickly pear, is a species of cactus that has long been a domesticated crop plant grown in...24 KB (2,734 words) - 01:45, 15 May 2024
- Opuntia monacantha, commonly known as drooping prickly pear, cochineal prickly pear, or Barbary fig, is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae native to...3 KB (333 words) - 04:56, 10 July 2023
- Italy. It was originally coloured with carmine dye, derived from crushed cochineal insects, which gave the drink its distinctive red colour. Campari Group...5 KB (507 words) - 18:22, 2 May 2024
- under proper husbandry. Some, such as the cochineal, kermes, lac, Armenian cochineal, and Polish cochineal, have been used to produce red dyes for coloring...45 KB (4,647 words) - 16:49, 7 April 2024
- for fodder or forage, and others for food (particularly their fruit). Cochineal is the product of an insect that lives on some cacti. Many succulent plants...108 KB (12,424 words) - 14:38, 24 May 2024
- Exploring Prime Numbers on Your PC and the Internet. Enoch Haga. pp. 71–80, fig. 8, table 9. ISBN 978-1-885794-24-6. LCCN 2007900755.. Haga, Enoch (2009)...73 KB (7,764 words) - 15:00, 23 May 2024
- cherry pits, amongst other botanicals, and coloring the liqueur with red cochineal, as was done in the past. Care was taken to remove the trace elements...5 KB (545 words) - 20:04, 22 August 2023
- including cochineal and indigo (for dyes), cacao, vanilla, henequen (for rope), cotton, and tobacco. A high quality, fast red dye from small cochineal insects...44 KB (5,832 words) - 06:49, 30 April 2024
- Boyle and Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Van Leeuwenhoek was interested in dried cochineal, trying to find out if the dye came from a berry or an insect. He studied...49 KB (5,352 words) - 21:06, 8 May 2024
- manufactured in Ancient Armenia, using the Armenian double knot and Armenian cochineal for the red colour. According to another source, it is an imported Persian...35 KB (3,612 words) - 01:15, 21 April 2024
- the color of pomegranate pulp, or from granum, referring to "red dye, cochineal". The modern French term for pomegranate, grenade, has given its name...66 KB (6,825 words) - 09:59, 16 May 2024
- naturally-sourced color palettes of pre-European codices: red from the cochineal insect, yellow from tecoçahuitl stones and flowering plants, black from...30 KB (3,616 words) - 05:00, 6 February 2024
- Opuntia microdasys Yellow bunny-ears, Teddy- bear cactus Opuntia monacantha Cochineal prickly pear, Drooping prickly pear Opuntia pubescens Velvet bur cactus...6 KB (123 words) - 04:05, 27 April 2022
- order to hide them, the baker decided to add a natural color based on cochineal, a scarlet dye, to disguise his mistake. From this sequence of events...3 KB (302 words) - 22:59, 23 November 2022
- resources like tomatoes, potatoes, onions, cochineal, sugarcane, grapes, vines, dates, oranges, lemons, figs, wheat, barley, maize, apricots, peaches and...172 KB (14,494 words) - 15:15, 25 May 2024
- the Hebrews, found in Israel and Egypt and used by serpent-charmers. Cochineal (שָׁנִי šənî; Coccus ilicis) — A hemiptera homoptera insect very common...99 KB (13,607 words) - 19:54, 3 May 2024
- a taste for sweetened chocolate. Another important export product was cochineal, a color-fast red dye made from dried insects living on cacti. It became...134 KB (16,619 words) - 21:40, 18 May 2024
- threads used in the carpet were colored with a dye made from the Armenian cochineal, which was anciently found on the Ararat plains. Moreover, the technique...71 KB (8,477 words) - 00:11, 19 March 2024
- moisturizers and toothpaste; and carmine from scale insects, such as the female cochineal, used in food and cosmetics to produce red and pink shades; Beauty Without...242 KB (24,737 words) - 04:30, 23 May 2024
- cochineal fig (plural cochineal figs) A plant of Central and South America, of the cactus family, cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which
- cacti, which is cultivated in Mexico and Central America as food for the cochineal insect, from which dyes for making carmine and scarlet are derived. The