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Definition of Lytta or Cantharis vesicatoria

Lytta or Cantharis vesicatoria
Blister Blis"ter, n. [OE.; akin to OD. bluyster, fr. the same root as blast, bladder, blow. See Blow to eject wind.] 1. A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle. And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. --Grainger. 2. Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel. 3. A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister. --Dunglison. Blister beetle, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the Lytta (or Cantharis) vesicatoria, called Cantharis or Spanish fly by druggists. See Cantharis. Blister fly, a blister beetle. Blister plaster, a plaster designed to raise a blister; -- usually made of Spanish flies. Blister steel, crude steel formed from wrought iron by cementation; -- so called because of its blistered surface. Called also blistered steel. Blood blister. See under Blood.
Lytta or Cantharis vesicatoria
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.

Meaning of Lytta or Cantharis vesicatoria from wikipedia

- Lytta vesicatoria, also known as the Spanish fly, is an aposematic emerald-green beetle in the blister beetle family (Meloidae). It is distributed across...
- genus Lytta as Lytta vesicatoria. It belongs to the family Meloidae. Cantharis allosensis Pic, 1924 Cantharis annularis Menetriez, 1836 Cantharis antennalis...
- fusca – Cantharis fusca Cantharis livida – Cantharis livida Cantharis rufa – Cantharis rufa Cantharis sanguinea – Lygistopterus sanguineus Cantharis obscura...
- 1835) Cantharis cryptica (Ashe, 1947) Cantharis figurata Mannerheim, 1843 Cantharis lateralis Linnaeus, 1758 Cantharis nigra (DeGeer, 1774) Cantharis nigricans...