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Watermelon vs Cockatrice - What's the difference?

watermelon | cockatrice |

As nouns the difference between watermelon and cockatrice

is that watermelon is a plant of the species , bearing a melon-like fruit while cockatrice is a legendary creature about the size and shape of a dragon or wyvern, but in appearance resembling a giant rooster, with some lizard-like characteristics.

watermelon

English

(wikipedia watermelon) (commons)

Noun

  • A plant of the species , bearing a melon-like fruit.
  • The fruit of the watermelon plant, having a green rind and watery flesh that is bright red when ripe and contains black pips.
  • (pejorative, slang) An environmentalist with socialist leanings (from the similarity to the fruit, being green on the outside, and red on the inside).
  • A pinkish-red colour, like that of watermelon flesh.

    • Derived terms

    * watermelon radish

    Anagrams

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    cockatrice

    English

    (wikipedia cockatrice)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A legendary creature about the size and shape of a dragon or wyvern, but in appearance resembling a giant rooster, with some lizard-like characteristics.
  • * (rfdate) , The Spell of Egypt
    • “Peace reigns in happy Luxor. The lion lies down with the lamb, and the child, if it will, may harmlessly put its hand into the cockatrice’s den”
  • Mistress, harlot

    • References

    * For meaning "mistress": 1949', John Dover Wilson (compiler), ' Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose , Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes

    See also

    * basilisk