cantharides
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- The Spanish fly is an emerald-green beetle in the family Meloidae, Lytta vesicatoria. Other species of blister beetle used by apothecaries are often called by the same name. ...
- A genus of coleopterous insects, formerly also taken to include aphids; Spanish fly, dried Cantharis vesicatoria beetles, popularly held to have aphrodisiac properties
- dried beetle Cantharis vesicatoria or commonly known as Spanish Fly. A homeopathic medication, it was used topically as a rubefacient, counter-irritant and vesicant or blistering agent. ...
- a plural form of cantharis; a preparation of dried beetles (especially Spanish flies) that contain the chemical compound cantharidin. Used in medicine as a blister-producing agent and an aphrodisiac, e.g. ...