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CRIMSON.—The word tôlâ‘, tr. [Note: translate or translation.] in Isa_1:18 ‘crimson’ and in Lam_4:5 ‘scarlet,’ is usually tr. [Note: translate or translation.] ‘Worm’ (wh. see), exactly as the Arab. [Note: Arabic.] dûdeh, the common word for ‘worm,’ is to-day also used in Palestine for the imported cochineal insect. The Palestine insect is the female Coccus ilicis of the same. Natural Order as the American C. cacti; it feeds on the holm-oak.
E. W. G. Masterman.