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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.

kermes appears in definitions for these words:
Alkermes Chermes Scarlet-oak Vermil

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