English Explanatory Dictionary

rinatrix

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of water snake formerly thought to poison water.

Word forms

rinatrix

Etymology

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

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