cinnabar

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

A bright red colour tinted with orange.

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

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.

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

The Elixir of Life.

Of a bright red colour tinted with orange.