Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Ääntäminen
- UK:
- IPA: /kænˈθæɹɪdiːz/
Käännöksiä ei löytynyt valitulle kohdekielelle.
- Cantharides on sanan cantharis monikko.
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (entomology) Cantharides, a genus of coleopterous insects, formerly also taken to include aphids.
- Spanish fly, a vesicant extracted from the beetle Lytta vesicatoria (alternatively classified Cantharis vesicatoria), popularly held to have aphrodisiac properties.
Esimerkit
- The Cantharides have some part in them, which by a contrarietie of nature serveth as an antidot or counterpoison against their poison.
- I can make the most subtle sauces yield up their secret--whether it be white arsenic, rosalgar, mercury sublimate, or cantharides.
- Speaking her name, it was as if he spake pure cantharides. ‘Quick,’ she panted. ‘There is time before they are all about. Again.’
- It’s lucky that Carol had taken the precaution of obtaining some cantharides; without them the evening might have been a dead loss.
- Basically Louis's drug dealer and pimp, Richelieu, known for opium recipes to fit all occasions, is also credited with the introduction into France of the cantharides, or Spanish fly.