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Basilisk vs Wyrm - What's the difference?

basilisk | wyrm |

As nouns the difference between basilisk and wyrm

is that basilisk is a mythical (and heraldic) snake-like dragon type, reputed to be so venomous that its gaze was deadly while wyrm is dragon, particularly one without legs or wings.

As an adjective basilisk

is suggesting a basilisk : baleful, spellbinding.

basilisk

English

(wikipedia basilisk)

Alternative forms

* basilisc

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mythical (and heraldic) snake-like dragon type, reputed to be so venomous that its gaze was deadly.
    • The deadly look of the basilisk
  • (heraldiccharge) In heraldry, a type of dragon
  • A treedwelling type of lizard, of genus .
  • A type of large brass cannon.

    • Adjective

    (-) (rfv-sense)
  • suggesting a basilisk : baleful, spellbinding
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1870 , author= , title=The British drama: illustrated , volume=4 , url= , isbn= , page=997 , passage=Well, She is so basilisk ; there's no death in her eyes ...}}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1884 , author=M. L. O'Byrne , title=Ill-won Peerages, Or, An Unhallowed Union , chapter= , url= , isbn= , page=126 , passage=her gaze became more basilisk in its expression, and her countenance bore some similitude to that of a handsome fiend}}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , author=Witi Tame Ihimaera , title=Whanau II , chapter= , url= , isbn= , page=167 , passage=He had never seen her quite like this, so basilisk , so frightening}} ----

    wyrm

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (poetic) dragon, particularly one without legs or wings
  • (poetic) snake, particularly a large one

    • See also

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