spanish fly in English

noun
1
a bright green European blister beetle.

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1. Cantharides definition, Spanish fly (def

2. Spanish Fly or Cantharides, if taken internally, cause excruciating irritation to the intestine and urinary tract

3. For example, Spanish fly, a commonly advertised natural Aphrodisiac, can cause kidney damage and bleeding in the digestive system

4. Spanish fly [64], also known as Cantharides, is the dried blistering beetle (Cantharis vesicatoria and related species), which contains cantharidin as a major active constituent

5. 2 Cantharides plural in form but singular or plural in construction : a preparation of dried beetles and especially Spanish flies that contains cantharidin and is used in medicine as a blister-producing agent and formerly as an aphrodisiac — called also Spanish fly

6. Among his surviving holograph manuscripts is an essay on the relative efficacy of different aphrodisiacs: viper wine is "powerfull," Cantharides (better known today as Spanish fly) "mighteleye provokes, butt is dangerous," and foods such as lamb's testicles, sparrow's brains, "All younge meates," chestnuts, and melons are effective provokers of lust.

7. Cantharides (n.) late 14c., cantaride, type of beetle (the "Spanish fly"), especially as dried, ground up, and used medicinally to raise blisters, from Latin plural of cantharis, from Greek kantharis "blister-fly, a kind of beetle." Beekes says this is a derivative of kantharos, also the name of a kind of beetle, for which there is no good etymology.