Usually means: Natural red food coloring agent.
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  1. annatto: Merriam-Webster
  2. annatto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. annatto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. annatto: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Annatto, annatto: Wordnik
  6. annatto: Wiktionary
  7. annatto: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. annatto: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. annatto: Dictionary.com
  10. Annatto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. annatto: FreeDictionary.org
  12. annatto: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. annatto: Merriam-Webster

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Encyclopedia of Spices (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. annatto: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. annatto: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Annatto: Glossary of Cheese Terms

Definitions from Wiktionary (annatto)

noun:  (countable) A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree; the fruit of the tree.
noun:  (uncountable) The seed of this tree used as a colouring or in Latin American cooking, containing bixin.
noun:  (uncountable) A fugitive orange-red dye obtained from this seed and fruit pulp through maceration and fermentation, used as textile dye and skin dye, containing bixin.

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