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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 cantharides
 斑貓

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Can·thar·i·des n. pl. See Cantharis.

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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Can·tha·ris n.; pl. Cantharides   Zool. A beetle (Lytta  vesicatoria, syn. Cantharis vesicatoria), having 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.

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