cinnabar : Idioms & Phrases


cinnabar chanterelle

  • noun mushroom with a distinctive pink to vermillion fruiting body
    Cantharellus cinnabarinus.
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Cinnabar Græcorum

  • L. Graecorum, gen. pl., of the Greeks. (Med.) Same as Dragon's blood.
Webster 1913

cinnabar moth

  • noun large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort
    cinnabar; Callimorpha jacobeae.
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Green cinnabar

  • a green pigment consisting of the oxides of cobalt and zinc subjected to the action of fire.
Webster 1913

Hepatic cinnabar

  • (Min.), an impure cinnabar of a liver-brown color and submetallic luster.
Webster 1913

Hepatic mercurial ore, ∨ Hepatic cinnabar

  • . See under Cinnabar.
Webster 1913