Basilisk vs. Dragon: What's the Difference?

A legendary serpent or dragon with lethal breath and glance.

See Draco2.

Any of various tropical American lizards of the genus Basiliscus, having a crest on the head and back and fringes of skin around the toes of the hind feet that enable it to run upright across the surface of water for short distances.

A mythical monster traditionally represented as a gigantic reptile having a long tail, sharp claws, scaly skin, and often wings.

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

Any of various lizards, such as the Komodo dragon or the flying lizard.

(science fiction) An infohazard or cognitohazard, especially a Langford's basilisk.

A fiercely vigilant or intractable person.

(heraldry) A type of dragon used in heraldry.

Something very formidable or dangerous.

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

(Archaic) A large snake or serpent.

A type of large brass cannon.

A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.

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

In Western mythology, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.

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.

In Eastern mythology, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent.

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

An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:

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

(obsolete) A very large snake; a python.

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

Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.

Ancient brass cannon

A Komodo dragon.

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

The constellation Draco.

(pejorative) A fierce and unpleasant woman; a harridan.

The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.

(figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.

A type of playing-tile (red dragon, green dragon, white dragon) in the game of mahjong.

A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.

A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.

A background process similar to a daemon.

A variety of carrier pigeon.

(slang) A transvestite man, or more broadly a male-to-female transgender person.

A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious.

A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.

A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.

A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.

A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; - so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.

A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.

A variety of carrier pigeon.

A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.

A creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings

A fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman

A faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus

Any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body