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発音

• enPR: sĭnʹ-ə'bär; IPA: /ˈsɪn.əˌbɑɹ/
• • (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /ˈsɪn.əˌbɑː(ɹ)/
  • (General American) IPA: /ˈsɪn.əˌbɑɹ/

名詞

cinnabar (countable and uncountable, plural cinnabars)

1. A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion.

   Synonym: (obsolete) æthiops mineral

2. A bright red colour tinted with orange.

   cinnabar:  

3. (countable) A species of erebid moth, Tyria jacobaeae, having red patches on its predominantly black wings.

   Synonym: cinnabar moth

   • 2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, page 223:

     There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.

4. Synonym of dragon's blood (“type of resin”).

派生語

形容詞

cinnabar (comparative more cinnabar, superlative most cinnabar)

1. Of a bright red colour tinted with orange.

参考

• mercury

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2026), “Cinnabar”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “cinnabar”, in Mindat.org, Keswick, Va.: Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2026.
• cinnabar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia