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cockatrice
n.
5cocatrice < OFr cocatris, crocodile < LL calcatrix, she who treads < calcare, to tread < calx, heel: see CALCAR6
1 a fabulous serpent supposedly hatched from a cock‘s egg and having power to kill by a look
2 Bible (KJV) an unidentified deadly serpent
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