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
