Moloch
noun
- Molech
- a spiny, brownish, ant-eating Australian lizard (Moloch horridus) similar to a horned toad but of another family (Agamidae)
See Moloch in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(mōˈlŏkˌ, mŏlˈək)
noun A lizard (Moloch horridus) of the deserts and plains of central and southern Australia, having a head and back covered with large spiny scales.
(mōˈlŏkˌ, mŏlˈək) also Mo·lech (mōˈlĕkˌ, mŏlˈək)
noun- In the Bible, the god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom children were sacrificed.
- Something possessing the power to exact severe sacrifice.
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