Examples
“The leucrota is a swift beast that lives in India.”
“Like the hyena, the leucrota can make sounds that resemble human speech.”
“Pliny the Elder tells us that the leucrota in fact has a badger's head, and not a horse's head.”
“Now the leucrota pictured above lacks the "single bone where teeth should be.”
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the name of the rose
pleasing words I encounter whilst reading umberto eco's novel of the same name.
matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, nones, vespers, compline, usurper, simoniac, heresiarch, malefactor and 230 more...
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Rose
Words encountered in The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
leucrota, cynophales, polycaudate, dragopods, hydrophora, hoopoe, parander, hypnales, prester, spectafici, saurian, scitales and 3 more...
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beautifulpyre From The Free Dictionary: "Pliny said that the offspring of a crocotta and a lion was the leucrota (or leucrocuta, leucrocotta, or leocrocotta), which could imitate the sound of a human voice. This was no doubt the source of the later, similar claims for the abilities of the crocotta itself. The leucrota was said to be a cloven hooved animal the size of a male donkey, yet swift and fierce. Described as having the haunches of a stag; the tail, chest, and neck of a lion; and the head of a badger, its mouth was said to open back as far as its ears. Instead of teeth it had ridges of bone that could crush anything. It was said to never close its eyes and its backbone was said to be so rigid that it had to turn around to see what was behind it."
"The dog-wolf crocotta and the antelope-like leucrota were clearly meant to be two different types of animals, but because of their alleged blood relation, the similarity of their names, and their supposed ability to speak with a human voice, the authors of bestiaries often mistook one for another. This is likely the source of many of the later conflations of their reputed characteristics." Apr 30, 2009