Term: cochineal insect: Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye
Broader: scale insect: small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering | Unrelated: mind: attention
Broader: scale insect: small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering | Unrelated: threescore: a set with 3 times 20 members
Broader: scale insect: small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering | Unrelated: pig iron: crude iron tapped from a blast furnace
Broader: scale insect: small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering | Unrelated: ribbing: a framework of ribs
Broader: scale insect: small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering | Unrelated: smith: someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable)
Broader: scale insect: small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering | Unrelated: vacuum: the absence of matter
Broader: scale insect: small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering | Unrelated: papilla: a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell
Broader: scale insect: small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering | Unrelated: pole position: the most favorable position at the start of a race
Broader: scale insect: small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering | Unrelated: draba: any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems; fruit is a dehiscent oblong or linear silique
Broader: scale insect: small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering | Unrelated: lame duck: an elected official still in office but not slated to continue