[mass noun]a bright red mineral consisting of mercury sulphide.It is the only important ore of mercury and is sometimes used as a pigment 朱砂,辰砂 ■the bright red colour of this; vermilion 鲜红色;朱红色 [as modifier]the blood coagulated in cinnabar threads. 血液凝结成朱红色的细丝。
(亦作 cinnabar moth)a day-flying moth with black and red wings, Its black and yellow caterpillars feed on groundsel and ragwort 千里光蛾,红棒球蝶灯蛾
Tyria jacobaeae, family Arctiidae 拉丁名Tyria jacobaeae,灯蛾科
语源
Middle English: from Latin cinnabaris, from Greek kinnabari, of oriental origin