• Kermes vermilio is a species of Kermes that feeds on trees. Some of the species are used by humans to make vermilion; though a mineral form used in many...
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    Kermes is a red dye derived from the dried bodies of the females of a scale insect in the genus Kermes, primarily Kermes vermilio. The Kermes insects...
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    (Linnaeus, 1758) Kermes roboris (Fourcroy, 1785) Kermes vermilio Planchon, 1864 Naturenet article with images and description of Kermes vermilio and its foodplant...
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  • to purple. It originally meant the color of the kermes dye produced from a scale insect, Kermes vermilio, but the name is now sometimes also used as a generic...
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    distinction was in the cost of scarlet, which was dyed with kermes, derived from the Kermes vermilio insect native to the Mediterranean. Lincoln scarlet, from...
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    dye in the Middle East and Europe, along with the insect dyes kermes (from Kermes vermilio and related species), lac (from Kerria lacca and related species)...
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    Italy, colored with kermes. Kermes is extracted from the dried unlaid eggs of the insect Kermes vermilio or Kermococcus vermilio found on species of oak...
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    it had a similar color to the natural red dye made from an insect, Kermes vermilio, which was widely used in Europe. The first recorded use of "vermilion"...
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    insect, Kermes vermilio, which lives on Quercus coccifera oaks native to the Near East, and the European side of the Mediterranean Basin. Kermes was used as...
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    The European West turned instead to vermilion provided by the insect Kermes vermilio, known as grana, or crimson. In 1909, Harvard anthropologist Zelia...
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    cochineal insect from Central and South America, Kermes lake came from a different scale insect, Kermes vermilio, which thrived on oak trees around the Mediterranean...
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  • carmine was extracted from the bodies of dead female insects such as Kermes vermilio and cochineal.: 131  The form of the term may also have been influenced...
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  • company Alchermes, a red liqueur coloured by inclusion of the insect Kermes vermilio Kermes (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    aluminum salt to produce the dye; Crimson, also known as kermes, extracted from the insect Kermes vermilio; and Lac, a scarlet resinous secretion of a number...
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  • primarily Kermes vermilio. The insects live on the sap of certain trees, especially Kermes oak trees near the Mediterranean region. Jars of kermes have been...
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    primarily Kermes vermilio. The insects live on the sap of certain trees, especially Kermes oak trees near the Mediterranean region. Jars of kermes have been...
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    (disambiguation) Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani? (disambiguation) Kermes ilicis or Kermes vermilio Sayings of Jesus on the cross They have pierced my hands and...
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    cochineal (Porphyrophora hamelii ) Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) Kermes vermilio Crimson (color) Mushak, Paul (June–July 1988). "The Use of Insect Dyes...
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    the changing flora of the region. He also wrote a dissertation on Kermes vermilio. In 1864 he became an associate professor at the École supérieure de...
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    ingredients. Kermes is a red dye from the dried bodies of the females of a scale insect in the genus Kermes, primarily Kermes vermilio. Kermes are native...
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    a "worm" or "crimson" color, as the color of the kermes dye produced from an insect, Kermes vermilio. His genealogy lists "Puah" as his father, "Dodo"...
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    kermes Kermes is a natural dye derived from the dried unlaid eggs of the females of a scale insect in the genus Kermes, primarily Kermes vermilio, distantly...
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    in the life-cycle of Kermes vermilio the kermes scale insect, source of the original crimson dye "Cuscolium" ("oddments") of kermes insects and wool dyed...
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