ker|mes

ker|mes
ker|mes «KUR meez», noun.
1. a scale insect, the females of which live on the twigs of certain kinds of oak trees.
2. a red dyestuff made from the dried bodies of these insects, formerly used in medicine.
3. a small evergreen oak on which these insects live.
[< French kermès < Arabic qirmiz < Sanskrit krmis worm, insect. See related etym. at carmine (Cf.carmine), cramoisy (Cf.cramoisy), crimson. (Cf.crimson)]

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