cockatrice

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a legendary monster with features of a rooster and serpent, traditionally said to kill with its gaze

   The manuscript depicts a cockatrice with a rooster's head and a serpent's body.

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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