What is "hepatic cinnabar"

Hepatic \He*pat"ic\, a. [L. hepaticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? the liver; akin to L. jecur, Skr. yak?t: cf. F. h['e]patique.]

1. Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.

2. Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.

3. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepatic[ae], or scale mosses and liverworts.

   Hepatic duct (Anat.), any biliary duct; esp., the duct, or one of the ducts, which carries the bile from the liver to the cystic and common bile ducts. See Illust., under Digestive.

   Hepatic gas (Old Chem.), sulphureted hydrogen gas.

   Hepatic mercurial ore, or Hepatic cinnabar. See under Cinnabar.

Cinnabar \Cin"na*bar\, n. [L. cinnabaris, Gr. ?; prob. of Oriental origin; cf. Per. qinb[=a]r, Hind. shangarf.]

1. (Min.) Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.

2. The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion.

   Cinnabar Gr[ae]corum. [L. Graecorum, gen. pl., of the Greeks.] (Med.) Same as Dragon's blood.

   Green cinnabar, a green pigment consisting of the oxides of cobalt and zinc subjected to the action of fire.

   Hepatic cinnabar (Min.), an impure cinnabar of a liver-brown color and submetallic luster.

n. (context mineral English) An impure cinnabar of a liver-brown colour and submetallic lustre.