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marilith

marilith noun: a powerful female demon with six arms and the lower body of a snake.

Noun

marilith (plural mariliths)

  1. A powerful female demon with six arms and the lower body of a snake.
    • A marilith can also constrict with her deadly tail. If the tail hits in combat, it wraps around a victim, automatically inflicting 4- 24 points of crushing damage each round.1993, Doug Stewart, Gary Gygax, Monstrous Manual, page 338
    • If you play with certain demons (mariliths, vrocks, hezrous, bone devils, nalfeshnees, pit fiends, or water demons), you could eventually get Yeenoghu anywhere, and then he could get you Demo.2001, Kate Nepveu, “some tough questions?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet)

Forms of marilith

pluralmariliths

Questions about marilith

What does marilith mean?
Marilith means a powerful female demon with six arms and the lower body of a snake.
What part of speech is marilith?
Marilith is a noun.
What is the plural of marilith?
The plural of marilith is mariliths.

Words near marilith in the dictionary

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  2. maril
  3. Marilag
  4. Marilao
  5. Marilaque Highway
  6. marilith
  7. mariliths
  8. Marilla
  9. Marillier
  10. Marillier shot
  11. Marillier shots

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