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cock·a·trice    Audio Help   (kŏk'ə-trĭs, -trīs')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Mythology
A serpent hatched from a cock's egg and having the power to kill by its glance.


[Middle English cocatrice, basilisk, from Old French cocatris, from Medieval Latin cocātrīx, cocātrīc-, possibly alteration of calcātrīx (translation of Greek ikhneumōn, tracker), from Latin calcāre, to track, from calx, calc-, heel.]

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