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

 can·tha·ris /ˈkæn(t)θərəs/
 斑蝥; 斑蝥蟲

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 can·tha·ris /ˈkæn(t)θərəs/ 名詞
 班蝥屬,西班牙芫青屬

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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