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cantharis

Cantharis is a 9 letter word which starts with the letter C and ends with the letter S for which we found 1 definitions.

Definition
(n.) 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.

Syllable Information

The word cantharis is a 9 letter word that has 3 syllable 's . The syllable division for cantharis is: can-thar-is


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