Centaur vs basilisk

Centaur

noun
  • A skillful horseman or horsewoman. 

  • One of a race of monsters having a head, torso, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse. Often depicted as rowdy drunkards, with Chiron being a notable exception. 

  • A U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes. 

  • An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune 

basilisk

noun
  • A mythical snake-like dragon, so venomous that even its gaze was deadly. 

  • A type of large brass cannon. 

  • A tree-dwelling type of lizard of the genus Basiliscus: the basilisk lizard. 

  • An infohazard or cognitohazard, especially a Langford's basilisk. 

  • A type of dragon used in heraldry. 

adj
  • Suggesting a basilisk (snake-like dragon): baleful, spellbinding. 

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