noun

• (Basilískos; died 476/477) Eastern Roman emperor from 9 January 475 to August 476.
• a genus of large corytophanid lizards, commonly known as basilisks, which are endemic to southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America.
• the only son of the East Roman (Byzantine) military commander Armatus and briefly caesar of the East Roman Empire in 476–477/8.
• the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor from 475 to 476.