See also:

• BASILISK (the /3aathtaios of the Greeks, and Tsepha (cockatrice)

BASILISK (the /3aathtaios of the Greeks, and Tsepha (See also:

• COCKATRICE

cockatrice)  of the See also:

• HEBREWS, EPISTLE TO THE

Hebrews), a name given by the ancients to a horrid See also:

• MONSTER (Lat. monstrum, from root of monere, to warn; i.e. something terrible or portentous)
• MONSTER, GEORG, COUNT ZU (1776-1844)

monster of their own See also:

• IMAGINATION

imagination, to which they attributed the most See also:

• MALIGNANT (Lat. malignus, evil-disposed, from maligenus)

malignant See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers and an equally fiendish See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance . The See also:

• TERM

term is now applied, owing to a certain fanciful resemblance, to a genus of lizards belongingto the familylguanidae,the See also:

• SPECIES

species of which are characterized by the presence,in the See also:

• MALES

males, of an erectile See also:

• CREST
• CREST (Lat. crista, a plume or tuft)

crest on the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head, and a still higher, likewise erectile crest—beset with scales—on the back, and another on the See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long tail . Basiliscus americanus reaches the length of one yard; its See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour is See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

green and See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

brown, with dark crossbars, while the crest is reddish . This beautiful, strictly herbivorous creature is rather See also:

• COMMON

common amidst the luxuriant vegetation on the See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks of See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers and streams of the See also:

• ATLANTIC

Atlantic hot lands of See also:

• MEXICO
• MEXICO (Span. Mejico, or Mexico,)
• MEXICO, FEDERAL DISTRICT OF
• MEXICO, GULF OF

Mexico and See also:

• GUATEMALA (sometimes incorrectly written GUATIMALA)
• GUATEMALA, or GUATEMALA LA NUEVA (i.e. " New Guatemala," sometimes written Nueva Guatemala, and formerly Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala)

Guatemala . The lizards See also:

• LIE, JONAS LAURITZ EDEMIL (1833—1908)
• LIE, MARIUS SOPHUS (1842–1899)

lie upon the branches of trees overhanging the See also:

• WATER

water, into which they plunge at the slightest alarm . Then they propel themselves by rapid strokes of the See also:

• HIND

hind limbs, beating the water in a semi-erect position and letting the long See also:

• RUDDER (O.E. Rather, i.e. rower)

rudder-like tail See also:

• DRAG (from the Old Eng. dragan, to draw; the word preserves the g which phonetically developed into w)

drag behind . They are universally known as pasa-rips, i.e. ferrymen .