COCKATRICE kok’ ə tris. (See [http://biblegateway/wiki/Adder ADDER AND BASILISK].) The cockatrice is a fabulous reptile usually identified with the basilisk. The tr. cockatrice is found four times in KJV (Isa 11:8; 14:29; 59:5; Jer 8:17) but in all modern Eng. VSS it is properly tr. adder.