Etymology

cantharides

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Today it means: Spanish fly, Lytta vesicatoria (syn. Cantharis vesicatoria). Full definition →

Latin cantharides
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  1. Latin · derived fromcantharides
  2. English todaycantharides

Late Middle English, from Latin cantharides, plural of cantharis.

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