cockatrice

1. 1.

   monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance

   Broadermythical monster

Other forms of cockatrice

plural

cockatrices·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cockatrice

What does cockatrice mean?

cockatrice means "monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance".

How many syllables are in cockatrice?

cockatrice has 3 syllables and divides as coc-ka-trice under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.