(medicine) poisoning due to the excess use of cantharides

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

Of or pertaining to cantharides.

plural of cantharid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Cantharidae.

Any salt or ester of cantharidic acid

To treat with cantharides

Related to, composed of, or derived from cantharides.

present participle of cantharidate

plural of cantharidate