cantharides

11 letters · noun · scores 3,400 in SpellHuntr

noun

Spanish fly, Lytta vesicatoria (syn. Cantharis vesicatoria).

Cantharides in a sentence

I can make the most subtle sauces yield up their secret—whether it be white arsenic, rosalgar, mercury sublimate, or cantharides.

Madame de Pompadour used tincture of cantharides to regain the love of Louis XV.

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