basilisk
Example Sentences
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Daniel wasn’t a basilisk, didn’t have the right kind of webbed feet, definitely didn’t have a neck ruffle thing.
From Literature
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He bought chicken eggs, painted them with dots, and sold them to a city official as basilisk eggs.
From Literature
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But as I did so the head turned, and the eyes fell full upon me, with all their blaze of basilisk horror.
From Literature
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Much harder to lay one’s hands on a wild bull, a basilisk or a wolf.
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Other animals, such as the modern green basilisk lizard, have tall, paddle-like tails that function more as social and sexual billboards than as swimming structures.
From National Geographic
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.