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Cockatrice

//ˈkɒkətɹaɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A legendary creature about the size and shape of a dragon or wyvern, but in appearance resembling a giant rooster, with some lizard-like characteristics.

    "“Peace reigns in happy Luxor. The lion lies down with the lamb, and the child, if it will, may harmlessly put its hand into the cockatrice’s den.”"

  2. 2
    monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance wordnet
  3. 3
    A mistress, a harlot. obsolete
  4. 4
    A snake or serpent that appears to be hatched from a rooster, or cock's, egg.

    "For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord."

  5. 5
    The cobra.
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  1. 6
    Any venomous or deadly thing. figuratively, obsolete

    "this little cockatrice of a king"

Etymology

First attested 1382 as Middle English cocatrice (“basilisk”), from Old French cocatriz, from Late Latin calcātrīx (“she who treads upon something”), from Latin calcō (“tread”), from calx (“heel, hoof”).

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