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Example sentences for: cochineal

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The coast road east passes the town of Guatiza, where prickly pears abound and where cochineal beetles are still cultivated (see page 19).
Luckily another single-crop opportunity presented itself in the form of cochineal, a parasitic insect attracted to the opuntia variety of cactus.
Its most unusual farm crop, however, is the Cochineal Beetle that, when squashed, emits a red dye used as coloring for Campari and lipsticks.