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cinnabar(encyclopedia)

cinnabar (iou)



cinnabar noun & adjective. ME.
[Latin cinnabaris from Greek kinnabari, of oriental origin.]
A. noun.
Native mercury(II) sulphide, a bright red hexagonal mineral which usu. occurs in massive form and is the only important ore of mercury; this mineral used as a pigment, vermilion. ME.
A moth, Tyria jacobaeae, with bright red wing markings. Also cinnabar-moth. E19.
b. adjective. Of the colour of cinnabar; vermilion. E19.
cinnabarine adjective consisting of or containing cinnabar; of the colour of cinnabar: L17.