cantharis

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von cantharis im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

(çoğulu: cantharides)

Kuduzböcegi, (zool.) Cantharis

Kuduzböceğinden yapılan bir ilâç

kuduzböcegi

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von cantharis im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

The Spanish fly, Lytta vesicatoria, taken to have aphrodisiac properties

Basically Louis's drug dealer and pimp, Richelieu, known for opium recipes to fit all occasions, is also credited with the introduction into France of the cantharides, or Spanish fly.

{i} Spanish fly, bright green European blister beetle

Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name

The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine

See Blister beetle, under Blister

A beetle (Lytta, or Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; also called Spanish fly

Silbentrennung

can·tha·ris

Etymologie

() From Latin cantharis, from Ancient Greek κανθαρίς.