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Meaning of rinatrix | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A type of water snake formerly thought to poison water.

obsolete

Examples

“Rinatrix is a Serpent which with enuenoming poysoneth ye water, so that into what cleare Fountaine or Riuer he swimmeth, he infecteth it.”
“Mountebank with thy pedantical action, / Rinatrix, bugle-ox, rhinoceros.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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