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    cockatrice

    详细解释:n. (传说中)看一眼就可以致它物于死命的毒蛇

    英语解释:

    名词 cockatrice:

    monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance

    详细解释:


    cock.a.trice

    n.Mythology (名词)【神话】
    A serpent hatched from a cock`s egg and having the power to kill by its glance.
    鸡头蛇身怪兽:从公鸡蛋孵出的看一眼就可以致它物于死命的毒蛇

    来源:
    Middle English cocatrice [basilisk]
    中古英语 cocatrice [神话中的蛇怪]
    from Old French cocatris
    源自 古法语 cocatris
    from Medieval Latin coc3trix coc3tric-
    源自 中世纪拉丁语 coc3trix coc3tric-
    possibly alteration of calc3trix
    可能为 calc3trix的变化
    from Latin calc3re [to track]
    源自 拉丁语 calc3re [追踪]
    from calx calc- [heel] translation of Greek ikhneumôn [tracker] * see ichneumon
    源自 calx calc- [在后紧随] 希腊语 ikhneumôn的翻译 [追捕者] *参见 ichneumon


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