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See also:BASILISK (the /3aathtaios of the Greeks, and Tsepha (See also:cockatrice)
of the See also:Hebrews), a name given by the ancients to a horrid See also:monster of their own See also:imagination, to which they attributed the most See also:malignant See also:powers and an equally fiendish See also:appearance
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The See also:term is now applied, owing to a certain fanciful resemblance, to a genus of lizards belongingto the familylguanidae,the See also:species of which are characterized by the presence,in the See also:males, of an erectile See also:crest on the See also:head, and a still higher, likewise erectile crest—beset with scales—on the back, and another on the See also:long tail
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Basiliscus americanus reaches the length of one yard; its See also:colour is See also:green and See also: |
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