Cantharides Definition

kantharədēz
noun
Webster's New World
A dangerous, sometimes fatal, preparation of powdered, dried Spanish flies, formerly used internally as a diuretic and aphrodisiac and externally as a skin irritant.
Webster's New World

(entomology) Cantharides, a genus of coleopterous insects, formerly also taken to include aphids.

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Spanish fly, a vesicant extracted from the beetle Lytta vesicatoria (alternatively classified Cantharis vesicatoria), popularly held to have aphrodisiac properties.

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