A cockatrice is a mythical beast, essentially a two-legged dragon, wyvern, or serpent-like creature with a rooster's head. Described by Laurence Breiner...
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up cockatrice in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A cockatrice is a legendary creature resembling a large rooster with a lizard-like tail. Cockatrice may...
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Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Cockatrice after the legendary creature: HMS Cockatrice (1781), launched in 1781, was a 14-gun cutter that...
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(-ískos, diminutive). It was also considered to be synonymous with the cockatrice. The basilisk is sometimes referred to as "king" because it has been reputed...
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The Talking Parcel (redirect from The Battle for Castle Cockatrice)
Castle Cockatrice) is a 1974 book by Gerald Durrell in which children are transported to the fantasy land of Mythologia to save it from cockatrices. They...
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Petroleum Warfare Department (redirect from Cockatrice flamethrower)
having a larger fuel tank, the Heavy Cockatrice was the same vehicle. The Army showed little interest in Cockatrice, and it never went into mass production...
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Korean dragon (section Korean cockatrice)
It also brings storms, lightning, and hail to ruin crops. The Korean cockatrice is known as a gyeryong (계룡; 鷄龍) "chicken-dragon"; they do not appear as...
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HMS Cockatrice was the fourth of the Alert-class British Royal Navy cutters. She was launched in 1781 and had an uneventful career until the Navy sold...
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HMS Cockatrice (J229) was a reciprocating engine-powered Algerine-class minesweeper during the Second World War. The reciprocating group displaced 1,010–1...
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rooster (Greek) Basan, a fire-breathing chicken from Japanese mythology Cockatrice, a chicken-headed dragon or serpent, visually similar to or confused with...
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