cantharides
Meanings
noun
- Spanish fly, Lytta vesicatoria (syn. Cantharis vesicatoria).
- Spanish fly; a vesicant extracted from the beetle, popularly held to have aphrodisiac properties.
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Etymology
Late Middle English, from Latin cantharides, plural of cantharis.
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