cock|a|trice

cock|a|trice
cock|a|trice «KOK uh trihs», noun.
1. a serpent in old stories whose look was supposed to cause death. The cockatrice was believed to be hatched by a serpent from a cock's egg. It was usually represented as part cock and part serpent.
2. a venomous serpent not now identifiable (in the Bible, Isaiah 14:29).
[< Old French cocatris (influenced by coq cock), ultimately < Latin calcāre tread on < calx, calcis heel]

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