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cinnăbăris , is, f. (cinnăbări , is, n., Sol. 25, 14 dub., and in some MSS. and edd. Plin. 33, 7, 38, § 115; cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, p. 555), = κιννάβαρι.
I. A pigment obtained from the gum of the dragon's-blood tree, dragon's-blood, Plin. 33, 7, 39, § 117; 13, 1, 2, § 7.—Abl. cinnabari, Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 25; 29, 4, 19, § 66.—
II. Some erroneously give this name to cinnabar, vermilion (minium), Plin. 33, 7, 38, § 115 sqq.
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    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 13.7
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