| 单词 | spanish fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSpanish fly Spanish fly n. = cantharides n.extracted from flyn.1Spanish fly Spanish fly n. [So Dutch spaansche vlieg, German spanische fliege, French mouche d'Espagne, etc.] = cantharides n. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > biological product > [noun] > from beetle cantharides?1541 Spanish fly1654 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Cantharidae > genus Cantharides > member of blister-fly1585 French flya1641 Spanish fly1654 blister-beetle1816 1654 Trag. Alphonsus iii. 34 Drink not Prince Pallatine, throw it on the ground. It is not good to trust his Spanish flies. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §vii. ii. 168 The common slender Spanish-Fly. Cantharis vulgaris. 1727 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Postscr. in J. Swift et al. Misc. II. 211 He procur'd Spanish Flies to blister his Neighbours. 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. x. 317 Another species of Mylabris.., which is fully as efficacious as the common Spanish fly. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IX xxviii. 19 None, save the Spanish Fly and Attic Bee, As yet are strongly stinging to be free. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 105 The Canthárides, or Spanish blister-flies, are an essential article of medicine. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. iii. 128 Common Cantharides:..commonly called Cantharides of the shops, Spanish Fly, Cantharides Fly. < as lemmas |
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