vermilions in English

noun
1
a brilliant red pigment made from mercury sulfide (cinnabar).
The two paint boxes were found to contain Prussian blue, chrome yellow, vermilion (a red mercury sulfide pigment), and red earth.

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1. ‘The Bocaccio is the ‘poster child’ for an overfished species, currently estimated to be 2-4% of their original biomass.’ ‘Vast numbers of rockfish at various life stages, especially widows, yellowtails, and blues, which tend to school in midwater, and some deeper-water species such as yelloweyes, canaries, vermilions, and Bocaccios