Sentence:  While he watched, one of the selkies drenched one of Sakura's <WSD>grootslangs</WSD> with a water shield, much like the one Fiona had used with Ray only days earlier. Had it been only days earlier? It felt like a lifetime ago. The water hit the <WSD>grootslang</WSD> right in the face. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A South African cryptid with the head of an elephant and the body of a snake, which reputedly eats elephants and hoards diamonds; one particular one ("the" Grootslang) is reputed to live in a cave in South Africa connected to the sea.