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basilisk

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basilisk: see iguana iguana , name for several large lizards of the family Iguanidae, found in tropical America and the Galapagos. The common iguana (Iguana iguana) is a tree-living, strictly vegetarian species found along streams from Mexico to N South America.
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basilisk
1. (in classical legend) a serpent that could kill by its breath or glance
2. any small arboreal semiaquatic lizard of the genus Basiliscus of tropical America: family Iguanidae (iguanas). The males have an inflatable head crest, used in display
basilisk
monstrous reptile; has fatal breath and glance. [Gk. Folklore: Jobes, 184]
See : Deadliness
basilisk
lizard supposed to kill with its gaze. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Handbook, 93]
See : Monsters
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Art thou come, by chance, cruel basilisk of these mountains, to see if in thy presence blood will flow from the wounds of this wretched being thy cruelty has robbed of life; or is it to exult over the cruel work of thy humours that thou art come; or like another pitiless Nero to look down from that height upon the ruin of his Rome in embers; or in thy arrogance to trample on this ill-fated corpse, as the ungrateful daughter trampled on her father Tarquin's?
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal.
The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
There is the country of the Amazons, and the country of the dwarfs, and the country of the fair but evil women who slay with beholding, like the basilisk.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
 
 
 
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