"cantharides" meaning in English

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        "Spanish fly, Lytta vesicatoria (syn. Cantharis vesicatoria)."
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          "ref": "1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 26, in Lud-in-the-Mist:",
          "text": "I can make the most subtle sauces yield up their secret—whether it be white arsenic, rosalgar, mercury sublimate, or cantharides.",
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          "text": "Speaking her name, it was as if he spake pure cantharides. ‘Quick,’ she panted. ‘There is time before they are all about. Again.’",
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