rinatrix

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noun

A type of water snake formerly thought to poison water.

OriginLate Latin rinatrix →
First used 14th–19th c.Scrabble 15
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Meanings

noun
  1. obsoleteA type of water snake formerly thought to poison water.First known use 14th–19th c.

    Mountebank with thy pedantical action, / Rinatrix, bugle-ox, rhinoceros.

    1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, I.1
    1 more example

    Rinatrix is a Serpent which with enuenoming poysoneth ye water, so that into what cleare Fountaine or Riuer he swimmeth, he infecteth it.

    1567, John Maplet, A Greene Forest

Origin

  1. Late Latinrinatrix
  2. Englishrinatrix

From Late Latin rinatrix (in Bartholomaeus Anglicus), apparently a misreading of Lucan 9.720 et natrix (“and the water snake”).

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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