spanish fly

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   green beetle of southern Europe

   Broaderblister beetle

Questions about spanish fly

What does spanish fly mean?

spanish fly means "green beetle of southern Europe".

Is spanish fly a common word?

spanish fly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.