| spanish | Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards. <botany> Spanish bayonet, a wooden roller, with a rope wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to serve as a lever. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Spanish fly | A dried beetle, Lytta (Cantharis) vesicatoria, used as a counterirritant and vesicant. Synonym: Russian fly, Spanish fly. Origin: L., fr. G. Kantharis, a beetle (05 Mar 2000) |
| Spanish influenza | Influenza that caused several waves of pandemic in 1918-1919, resulting in more than 20 million deaths worldwide; it was particularly severe in Spain (hence the name), but now is thought to have originated in the U.S. As a form of swine influenza. (05 Mar 2000) |