cantharid

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  1. Some worm-insect injurious to plants. Bestes forto sle That dooth thi vynes harm let sle the flie, The cantharide in roses that we se. Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 32.
  2. A beetle of the genus Cantharis or group Cantharides; especially, C. vesicatoria. See cut under Cantharis.

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  1. from Middle English cantharide, cantaride = French cantharide = Provencal Spanish Portuguese cantarida = Italian cantaride, from Latin cantharis (-rid-): see Cantharis.
 

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