Answer: kermes

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kermesa red cochineal-like dye made from dried bodies of certain female insects of Mediterranean; the evergreen oak on which these insects feed
kermesred dye formerly prepared from the dried bodies of the females of a scale insect, Kermes ilices, which lives on small, evergreen oaks of the Mediterranean region
kermesthe oak itself, of the genus Quercus coccifera