basilisk
Meaning of basilisk
noun
- a mythical reptile with a lethal gaze or breath, hatched by a serpent from a cock's egg.
- 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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