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Cantharidal
Cantharidal Can*thar"*i*dal, a. Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster.
Cantharides
Cantharides Can*thar"i*des, n. pl. See Cantharis.
Cantharides
Cantharis Can"tha*ris, n.; pl. Cantharides. [L., a kind of beetle, esp. the Spanish fly, Gr. kanqari`s.] (Zo["o]l.) A beetle (Lytta, or Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.
Cantharidin
Cantharidin Can*thar"i*din, n. (Chem.) The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms.

Meaning of Cantharid from wikipedia

- composed of nettles and a cantharid extract. This is perhaps the same man of whom Paré relates that a courtesan sprinkled a cantharid powder on food she served...
- Atalantycha bilineata, known generally as the two-lined cantharid or two-lined leather-wing, is a species of soldier beetle in the family Cantharidae...
- belonging to the family Cantharidae. It is one of the largest genera of cantharid beetles, with about 200 species known worldwide and new species discovered...
- Rhaxonycha carolina, the Carolina cantharid, is a species of soldier beetle in the family Cantharidae. It is found in North America. "Rhaxonycha carolina...
- Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24. Kazantsev, Sergey (2001). "New cantharid genus from North America and Far East Asia (Coleoptera: Cantharidae)"...
- California Press. p. 227. ISBN 9780520288744. Kazantsev, Sergey (2001). "New cantharid genus from North America and Far East Asia (Coleoptera: Cantharidae)"...
- bilobata McKey-Fender, 1941 Rhaxonycha carolina (Fabricius, 1801) (Carolina cantharid) "Rhaxonycha Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved...
- Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24. Kazantsev, Sergey (2001). "New cantharid genus from North America and Far East Asia (Coleoptera: Cantharidae)"...
- to the genus Atalantycha: Atalantycha bilineata (Say, 1823) (two-lined cantharid) Atalantycha dentigera (LeConte, 1851) Atalantycha humata (Wickham, 1913)...
- from Dominican Amber, with Notes on Diagnostic Characters of West Indian Cantharids with Short Elytra". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 76 (4): 577–583. doi:10...