cockatrice

(käk′ə tris′)

noun

a fabulous serpent supposedly hatched from a cock's egg and having power to kill by a look
Bible an unidentified deadly serpent

Origin: cocatrice < OFr cocatris, crocodile < LL calcatrix, she who treads < calcare, to tread < calx, heel: see calcar

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noun
Mythology

A serpent hatched from a cock's egg and having the power to kill by its glance.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English cocatrice, basilisk

Origin: , from Old French cocatris

Origin: , from Medieval Latin cocātrīx, cocātrīc-

Origin: , possibly alteration of calcātrīx (translation of Greek ikhneumōn, tracker)

Origin: , from Latin calcāre, to track

Origin: , from calx, calc-, heel

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