Cochineal fig

Coch´i`neal fig


1.(Bot.) A plant of Central and Southern America, of the Cactus family, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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