1. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange colour
   - vermilion, vermillion, Chinese-red

1. A heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulphide; the chief source of mercury 
2. Large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort
   - cinnabar moth, Callimorpha jacobeae

Derived forms: cinnabars

See also: chromatic

Type of: arctiid, arctiid moth, mineral

Part of: Callimorpha, genus Callimorpha

Encyclopedia: Cinnabar

• spatiotemporal
• spatter
• spatterdock
• spattered
• spattering
• spatula
• spatula-shaped
• spatulate
• spatulate leaf
• spavin
• spavined
• spawl
• spawn
• spawner
• spay
• spayed
• spaying
• spaz
• speak
• speak for
• speak in tongues
• speak of the devil
• speak out
• speak up
• speakable