spanishfly

Spanish fly

noun
1.
Also called cantharides. a preparation of powdered blister beetles, especially the Spanish fly, used medicinally as a counterirritant, diuretic, and aphrodisiac.
2.
Also, Span·ish·fly. Also called cantharis. a common European blister beetle, Cantharis ( Lytta ) vesicatoria, that yields this preparation.

Origin:
1400–50; so called from the fact that the beetles are found in abundance in Spain

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Spanish fly
 
n
1.  a European blister beetle, Lytta vesicatoria (family Meloidae), the dried bodies of which yield the pharmaceutical product cantharides
2.  another name for cantharides

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