1. A small insect found chiefly in Mexico, which, when collected in great numbers, killed by the application of heat, and formed into a mass, is used in giving red colours, especially crimson and scarlet, and in the manufacture of carmine.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• cockygeal,
• xochineal,
• vochineal,
• fochineal,
• dochineal,
• cichineal,
• ckchineal,
• clchineal,
• cpchineal,
• c0chineal,
• c9chineal,
• coxhineal,
• cochinel,
• cochineel,
• coccinell,
• Coccinelle,
• coccitial,
• cochinia,
• Pachiceralic,
• Othinell

• cousinly.

The adjective form of the word "cochineal" is "cochineal".

The plural of the "cochineal" can be the "cochineals".

The singular of the "cochineal" can be the "cochineal".