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Definition: CANTHARIS |
CANTHARISNoun1. A beetle (Lytta, / 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. |
Date "CANTHARIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Crosswords: CANTHARIS |
| English words defined with "CANTHARIS": Blister beetle ♦ Cantharides, Cantharidin ♦ Spanish fly. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CANTHARIS" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (cantharides, poison, soldier beetle, soldier of fortune, Spanish fly). |
Expressions using "CANTHARIS": cantharis tropical ♦ Cantharis vesicatoria ♦ Lytta or Cantharis vesicatoria. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cantharis | 10 |
cantharis d6 | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CANTHARIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الأخيصر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | испанска муха (cantharides). (various references) | |
Czech | španìlská moucha. (various references) | |
Dutch | cantharis vesicatoria (cantharides, cantharis vesicatoria). (various references) | |
French | cantharis vesicatoria (cantharides, cantharis vesicatoria). (various references) | |
German | Trinkgefässe. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kõrisbogár. (various references) | |
Italian | cantaris vesicatoria (cantharides, cantharis vesicatoria). (various references) | |
Manx | quaillag Spaainagh (blistering fly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anthariscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cântaro (ewer, jug, jugful, pitcher, pot, stoop). (various references) | |
Russian | шпанская муха. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | španska mušica (cantharides). (various references) | |
Spanish | mosca (bore, dough, fly, housefly, Midge, money, pest). (various references) | |
Swedish | spanskfluga. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шпанська муха. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"CANTHARIS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acanthomis, Acanthurus, Antiaris, cantarist, cantharus, catharis, catharism, Kandhari, kantharos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: anarchist. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-i-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: archaist, citharas. | |
-2 letters: acanthi, acrasin, anarchs, antiars, anticar, arnicas, artisan, carinas, caritas, cithara, narcist, satanic, shaitan, tarnish, tsarina. | |
-3 letters: acinar, actins, airths, anarch, antiar, antics, arhats, arista, arnica, arshin, ashcan, cairns, canthi, carats, carina, casita, chains, chairs, chants, charas, charts, chinas, chints, crania, crista, inarch, instar, nachas, nairas, nastic, rachis, racist, ratans, riatas. | |
-5 letters: aahs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-h-i-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: anarchists. | |
+2 letters: anarchistic, anthracites, batrachians, cantharides, catarrhines, christiania, handicrafts, machinators, thrasonical. | |
+3 letters: brachiations, cantharidins, charlatanism, christianias, saccharinity. | |
+4 letters: anachronistic, archegoniates, charlatanisms, charlatanries, craftsmanship, hallucinators, handicrafters, haruspication, parasynthetic, thrasonically, transthoracic, uncharismatic. | |
+5 letters: antiarthritics, antihistorical, antimonarchist, antirheumatics, archimandrites, arithmeticians, authenticators, charitableness, chateaubriands, cinematographs, craftsmanships, handicraftsman, handicraftsmen, haruspications, ichthyosaurian, noncharismatic, phantasmagoric, saccharinities. | |
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