Usually means: Chemical used for blistering skin.
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  1. cantharides: Merriam-Webster
  2. cantharides: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cantharides: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cantharides: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cantharides, cantharides: Wordnik
  6. cantharides: Wiktionary
  7. cantharides: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. cantharides: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. cantharides: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Cantharides, cantharides: Dictionary.com
  11. Cantharides: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Cantharides: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. cantharides: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Cantharides: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. cantharides: FreeDictionary.org
  16. cantharides: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cantharides: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cantharides: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. cantharides: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cantharides)

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

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