different between watermelon vs cockatrice

English

Etymology

From the 1610s, a compound of water +? melon.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w??t??m?l?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?t???m?l?n/

Noun

watermelon (countable and uncountable, plural watermelons)

1. A plant of the species Citrullus lanatus, bearing a melon-like fruit.
2. The fruit of the watermelon plant, having a green rind and watery flesh that is typically bright red when ripe and contains black pips.
3. (derogatory, slang) An environmentalist with socialist leanings (from the similarity to the fruit, being green on the outside, and red (Communist) on the inside).
4. A pinkish-red colour, like that of watermelon flesh (also called watermelon pink).

5. A project that is presented as on schedule when it actually has parts that are falling behind.

Derived terms

• watermelon radish

Translations

Anagrams

• water lemon

English

Etymology

First attested 1382 as Middle English cocatrice (“basilisk”), from Old French cocatriz, from Late Latin calc?tr?x (“she who treads upon something”), from Latin calc? (“tread”), from calx (“heel, hoof”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?k?tra?s/, /?k?k?tr?s/

Noun

cockatrice (plural cockatrices)

1. (mythology) 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.

   Coordinate terms: basilisk, wyvern

   Hypernym: chimera

   • c. 1910, Joseph Walker McSpadden, 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.”

2. (obsolete) Mistress, harlot.
3. (fantasy, folklore) A snake or serpent that appears to be hatched of a rooster, or cock's, egg.
4. (speculated) The cobra. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
5. (obsolete, figuratively) Any venomous or deadly thing.

Translations

Further reading

• cockatrice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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
• For meaning "a snake of a chicken's egg:" 1828, Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English language.
• For "cobra:" an article, “Cockatrice” or “Adder” in Isaiah 11:8 et al.?