单词 | cantharides |
释义 | cantharidesn. 1. With plural agreement. (singular Cantharis in Entomology) A genus of coleopterous insects of the family Trachelidæ; the officinal species ( C. vesicatoria or Spanish Fly) has golden-green elytra. Early writers appear to have applied the name to Aphides. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis cantharidesa1398 blackfly1652 greenflya1680 green louse1682 green bug1704 collier1742 puceron1744 plant louse1763 aphis1771 leaf louse1774 smother-fly1785 tree-louse1797 ant cow1875 aphid1884 stilt-bug1895 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Cantharidae > genus Cantharides cantharidesa1398 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. lxv. 956 Greneflyes bredeþ þerinne þat beþ cleped catarides [perhaps read cantarides; 1495 de Worde Catarides; L. cantharides]. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 865 The cantharide in roses that we se. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 112 One kind..is in colour greene: in humor or iuice verie poysonous, and is called Cantharis. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 73 a The greene venemous flies Cantharides. a1625 W. Cope Apol. R. Cecil in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 121 The Cantharides ever have, and will crop the fairest flowers. 1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 418 The cantharides vibrating in the transparent air. 2. With singular agreement. The pharmacopœial name of the dried beetle Cantharis vesicatoria or Spanish Fly. Used externally as a rubefacient and vesicant; internally as a diuretic and stimulant to the genito-urinary organs, etc. Formerly considered an aphrodisiac. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > aphrodisiac > specific cantharides?1541 potato1565 hippomane1580 potato finger1609 hippomane1756 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > biological product > [noun] > from beetle cantharides?1541 Spanish fly1654 ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Oiijv And make no scarres, but blysters as canterides. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 531 Apply it on the bare skinne, to make blisters & holes, euen as Cantarides doth. 1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster iv. 41 Before she was common talke, now none dares say Cantharides can stirre her. 1843 W. Youatt Horse (new ed.) xii. 252 Some stimulating liniment..consisting of turpentine or tincture of cantharides. 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 30 Give me agates for my meat, Give me cantharids to eat. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.a1398 |
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