basilisks

Meaning of basilisks

plural 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 basilisks

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

basilisks

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 9 chars.
  • basilisks is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with basilisks

bisks, blastodisks, disks, laserdisks, minidisks, ramdisks, videodisks, fisks, lutefisks, lutfisks, flywhisks, trochisks, whisks, flisks, glisks, lisks, obelisks, odalisks, panisks, asterisks, brisks, frisks, risks, satyrisks, tamarisks, lentisks

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