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# basilisk

«basilisk» in Mova's school dictionary: **a monstrous serpent or lizard whose look could kill** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (basilisks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In old fairy tales, a basilisk is a monstrous serpent or lizard whose look could kill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basilisk/#m1)

2) A basilisk is a real lizard of warm places that can run across water on its back legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basilisk/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales, a dangerous creature whose glance is deadly, often met by a brave hero.

### examples

- The knight feared the basilisk's deadly stare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basilisk/#x1)
- In the story, a basilisk guarded the golden well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basilisk/#x2)
- Some lizards can run on water, like the basilisk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basilisk/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### In the corpora

- [At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like a basilisk.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.680/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «basilisk» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basilisk/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.