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cockatrice

/kok-uh-tris/US // ˈkɒk ə trɪs //UK // (ˈkɒkətrɪs, -ˌtraɪs) //

鸡冠花,鸡冠石,蟑螂

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a legendary monster with a deadly glance, supposedly hatched by a serpent from the egg of a cock, and commonly represented with the head, legs, and wings of a cock and the body and tail of a serpent.Compare basilisk.
    • : a venomous serpent. Isaiah 11:8.

Examples

  • The cockatrice lifted itself up on its tail and looked at him with red eyes.

  • And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp; and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den.

  • The fabulous animal, the cockatrice, was believed to result from a "venomous egg" laid by an aged cock, and hatched by a toad.

  • Those hens pecked the catch loose, and that cockatrice fairly staggered them.

  • Probably from the same source came such mythical creatures as the dragon, the wyvern, and the cockatrice.

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