cochineal fig
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[edit]Noun
[edit]cochineal fig (plural cochineal figs)
- A plant of Central and South America, of the cactus family, cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cochineal fig”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)