Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Some worm-insect injurious to plants.
- n. A beetle of the genus Cantharis or group Cantharides; especially, C. vesicatoria. See cut under Cantharis.
Wiktionary
- n. zoology Any member of the Cantharidae.
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cantharid’.
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beetles
beetles
anobiid, beetle, bookworm, borer, bruchid, buprestid, cadelle, canegrub, cantharid, cantharis, carabid, chafer and 117 more...
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Ada, or Ardor
I only started dog-earing 2/5 of the way through, so I'll have to re-read at some point in order to complete this list.
fatidic, herbarium, volitation, plafond, pseudopodal, hongry, dolent, dackel, fubsy, hurdies, palpebral, twayblade and 98 more...
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eesome
Includes any intangible conceivable independently of Hom. Sap.
depthless, overspire, unsteady, thitherward, rile, munchable, covet, pastinaceous, mirtle, slonk, tink, inerrarable and 345 more...
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Ada, or Ardor ~Vladmir Nabokov
granoblastically, cicerone, aerocable, anachronistically, parvis, athwart, mnemonic, squitteroo, nusshaus, edelweiss, intermezzo, cabriole and 183 more...
Tweets
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yarb Both young ladies wore the very short and open evening gowns that Vass "miraged" that season - in the phrase of that season: Ada, a gauzy black, Lucette, a lustrous cantharid green.
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor Jun 4, 2008