Usage examples (34)

• They'd been growing something called cochineal, which is a-- it was a kind of a-- a bug that grows on
• The rich red dye is made from an insect called a cochineal which lives on cactus.
• The cochineal is a parasite of cacti of the genus opuntia, from which it has been harvested in South America since pre-Columbian times.
• The small parasitic insects from which this dye was obtained somewhat resembled the cochineal which is found in Eastern countries.