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Spanish fly: see blister beetle blister beetle, common name for certain soft-bodied, usually black or brown, mostly elongate and cylindrical beetles belonging to the family Meloidae. Blister beetles are common insects found feeding on the flowers and foliage of various plants. Occasionally some, e. ..... Click the link for more information. . Spanish fly 1. a European blister beetle, Lytta vesicatoria (family Meloidae), the dried bodies of which yield the pharmaceutical product cantharides 2. another name for cantharides Spanish fly preparation made of green blister beetles and used to incite cattle to mate. [Insect Symbolism: EB, IX: 399] See : Aphrodisiacs How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Just as the best-selling Portnoy's Complaint failed to turn liver into anyone's lover, Dawson's Creek has not proven to be the small-screen equivalent of Spanish fly. Attending physicians noted that the symptoms resembled those seen in men who had overindulged in a drug called cantharidin -- popularly known as Spanish fly -- which is extracted from a particular beetle for its purported value as an aphrodisiac. In the saddest of its early vignettes, Karchy wins his first date with Diney Majeski (Calista Flockhart), his co-worker in a poultry and egg shop, and laces her milkshake with Spanish fly that a classmate has provided. |
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