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Cochineal fig

Coch"i*neal fig\, (Bot.) A plant of Central and Southern America, of the Cactus family, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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