Definition of dragon

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Dragon (n.) A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard..

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Dragon :: Dragon (n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent..
Snapdragon :: Snapdragon (n.) Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon..
Earthdrake :: Earthdrake (n.) A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon.
Flapdragon :: Flapdragon (n.) A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing..
Foxfish :: Foxfish (n.) The european dragonet. See Dragonet.
Dragon's Tail :: Dragon's tail () See Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, etc., under Dragon..
Pseudoneuroptera :: Pseudoneuroptera (n. pl.) division of insects (Zool.) reticulated wings, as in the Neuroptera, but having an active pupa state. It includes the dragon flies, May flies, white ants, etc. By some zoologists they are classed with the Orthoptera; by others, with the Neuroptera..
Devil's Darning-needle :: Devil's darning-needle () A dragon fly. See Darning needle, under Darn, v. t..
Dragon's Blood :: Dragon's blood () Alt. of Dragon's tai.
Odonata :: Odonata (n. pl.) The division of insects that includes the dragon flies.
Dragon :: Dragon (n.) A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms..
Wivern :: Wivern (n.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs..
Dracontic :: Dracontic (a.) Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon..
Gowdie :: Gowdie (n.) See Dragont.
Labiate :: Labiate (a.) Having the limb of a tubular corolla or calyx divided into two unequal parts, one projecting over the other like the lips of a mouth, as in the snapdragon, sage, and catnip..
Flapdragon :: Flapdragon (v. t.) To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour..
Libellulid :: Libellulid (n.) A dragon fly.
Sea Dragon :: Sea dragon () The pegasus.
Draconin :: Draconin (n.) A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood; -- called also dracin.
Dragonish :: Dragonish (a.) resembling a dragon.
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