The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg of a cock. The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal. Many infidels deny this creature's existence, but Semprello Aurator saw and handled one that had been blinded by lightning as a punishment for having fatally gazed on a lady of rank whom Jupiter loved. Juno afterward restored the reptile's sight and hid it in a cave. Nothing is so well attested by the ancients as the existence of the basilisk, but the cocks have stopped laying.

A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.

A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidæ.

A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.

This creature looks like giant lizard with four pairs of legs. It's gaze will turn any living creature to stone. This creature comes from medieval legends.

(classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance

small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs; of tropical America

a mythical creature thats half chicken, half lizard

a reptilian monster that petrifies living creatures with a mere gaze

a snake and it's very deadly

a very magical creature

wyvern with a dragon’s head stuck on the end of his tail

large, poisonous serpent with a deadly stare, born from a chicken's egg, hatched beneath a toad, subdued by crowing rooster

A South American lizard that can walk on water.

In European bestiaries and legends, a basilisk (from the Greek βασιλίσκος basiliskos, a little king, in Latin Regulus) is a legendary reptile reputed to be king of serpents and said to have the power of causing death by a single glance. According to the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, the basilisk is a small snake that is so venomous that it leaves a wide trail of deadly venom in its wake, and its gaze is likewise lethal.

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the basilisk is a reptilian magical beast that turns creatures to stone by meeting their gaze.

Basilisk is a 1982 album by The Legendary Pink Dots.