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KERM'ES, n. In zoology, an insect produced in the excrescences of a species of small oak, or the body of an insect transformed into a grain, berry, or husk. This body is full of reddish juice, which
is used in dyeing red. Hence the word crimson.
The dried bodies of the
females of a scale insect (Coccus ilicis), allied to the
cochineal insect, and found on several species of oak near the
Mediterranean. They are round, about the size of a pea, contain
coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing. They
were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used in
medicine.
[Written also chermes.] A small European evergreen
oak (Quercus coccifera) on which the kermes insect (Coccus
ilicis) feeds.
J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).
Kermes mineral. A genus of scale insects including many species that feed
on oaks. The adult female resembles a small gall.
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