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countable and uncountable, plural cinnabars
A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion. examples
A bright red colour tinted with orange. examples
(countable) A species of moth, Tyria jacobaeae, having red patches on its predominantly black wings. quotations examples
There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.
2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, page 223
(in “Cinnabar Panacea”) The Elixir of Life. examples
comparative more cinnabar, superlative most cinnabar
Of a bright red colour tinted with orange. examples