rinatrix

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of water snake formerly thought to poison water. obsolete
    — Rinatrix is a Serpent which with enuenoming poysoneth ye water, so that into what cleare Fountaine or Riuer he swimmeth, he infecteth it.

词源

From Late Latin rinatrix (in Bartholomaeus Anglicus), apparently a misreading of Lucan 9.720 et natrix (“and the water snake”).
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary