Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CANTHARIDES

Definitions of CANTHARIDES

1. Spanish fly; a vesicant extracted from the beetle, popularly held to have aphrodisiac properties.
2. Spanish fly, Lytta vesicatoria (syn. Cantharis vesicatoria).

Examples of Using CANTHARIDES in a Sentence

• The species and others in its family were used in traditional apothecary preparations as "Cantharides".
• Metrodorus of Scepsis tells us that this discovery was first made in Cappadocia; and that, in consequence of such multitudes of cantharides being found to breed there, it is the practice for women to walk through the middle of the fields with their garments tucked up above the thighs.
• This land produces sapan wood (useful to produce red dye), diamond, sandalwood, incense, puyang pepper, cantharides (green beetles used for medicine), steel, turtles, tortoise shell, strange and rare birds; such as a large parrot as big as a hen, red and green parrots, five-coloured parrots that can imitate the human voice, also guinea fowl, peacock, 'betel tree bird', pearl bird, and green pigeons.

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