basilisk

Meaning of basilisk

noun
  1. a mythical reptile with a lethal gaze or breath, hatched by a serpent from a cock's egg.
  2. a long, slender, and mainly bright green lizard found in Central America, the male of which has a crest running from the head to the tail. It can swim well, and is able to run on its hind legs across the surface of water.

late Middle English: via Latin from Greek basiliskos ‘little king, serpent’, from basileus ‘king’.

Information about basilisk

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of basilisk is: basilisks.
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Hyphenation of basilisk

basilisk

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • basilisk is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with basilisk

Lisk, lisk, odalisk, delisk, obelisk, flisk, glisk, dillisk

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