rinatrix🔊

(obsolete) A type of water snake formerly thought to poison water.

💬 Quotations

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

John Maplet, A Greene Forest

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

John Marston, The Insatiate Countess

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