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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Cŏch'i-nēal-fĭg, n.

noun

n. (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.

An illustration of a cochineal fig cactus with several upright, fruit-bearing pads.
Cochineal-fig (Opuntia cochinelli- fera).