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basilisk

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
basilisk /ˈbazɪlɪsk/

▶noun

1 a mythical reptile with a lethal gaze or breath, hatched by a serpent from a cock's egg.
■ Heraldry another term for cockatrice.

2 a long, slender Central American lizard, the male of which has a crest running from the head to the tail.
[Basiliscus plumifrons.]

– origin ME: via L. from Gk basiliskos ‘little king, serpent’, from basileus ‘king’.

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