dragon : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel
  

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• noun European arum resembling the cuckoopint
  dragon arum; Dracunculus vulgaris.
  

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• (Bot.), the name of several species of Arisæma, a genus of plants having a spathe and spadix. See Dragon root(below).

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• (Zoöl.), the dragonet.

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• (Zoöl.), any insect of the family Libellulidæ. They have finely formed, large and strongly reticulated wings, a large head with enormous eyes, and a long body; called also mosquito hawks. Their larvæ are aquatic and insectivorous.

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• noun the largest lizard in the world (10 feet); found on Indonesian islands
  giant lizard; Varanus komodoensis; Komodo lizard; dragon lizard.
  

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• (Bot.), an American aroid plant (Arisæma Dracontium); green dragon.

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• (Zoöl.), a species of limpet.

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• noun tall tree of the Canary Islands; source of dragon's blood
  Dracaena draco.
  

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• (Bot.), a West African liliaceous tree (Dracæna Draco), yielding one of the resins called dragon's blood. See Dracæna.

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• a medicinal remedy very popular in the earlier half of the 17th century. "Dragon water may do good upon him." Randolph (1640).

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• noun a dark red resinous substance derived from various trees and used in photoengraving
  

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• a resinous substance obtained from the fruit of several species of Calamus, esp. from C. Rotang and C. Draco, growing in the East Indies. A substance known as dragon's blood is obtained by exudation from Dracæna Draco; also from Pterocarpus Draco, a tree of the West Indies and South America. The color is red, or a dark brownish red, and it is used chiefly for coloring varnishes, marbles, etc. Called also Cinnabar Græcorum.

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• noun Asian fruit similar to litchi
  longanberry.
  

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• noun American herb having sharply serrate lanceolate leaves and spikes of blue to violet flowers
  dragonhead; Dracocephalum parviflorum.
  

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• . (a) (Bot.) A plant of several species of the genus Dracocephalum. They are perennial herbs closely allied to the common catnip. (b) (Astron.) The ascending node of a planet, indicated, chiefly in almanacs, by the symbol . The deviation from the ecliptic made by a planet in passing from one node to the other seems, according to the fancy of some, to make a figure like that of a dragon, whose belly is where there is the greatest latitude; the intersections representing the head and tail; from which resemblance the denomination arises. Encyc. Brit.

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• noun a bog orchid with usually a solitary fragrant magenta pink blossom with a wide gaping corolla; Canada
  Arethusa bulbosa; wild pink; bog rose.
  

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• fossil stems whose leaf scars somewhat resemble the scales of reptiles; a name used by miners and quarrymen. Stormonth.

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• (Astron.), the descending node of a planet, indicated by the symbol . See Dragon's head (above).

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• (Bot.), a plant of the genus Artemisia (A. dracunculus).

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• noun North American plant having a spike of two-lipped pink or white flowers
  obedient plant; Physostegia virginiana; false dragonhead.
  

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• noun any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body
  flying lizard; dragon.
  

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• a large meteoric fireball; a bolide.

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• noun a high ranking person in the Ku Klux Klan
  

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• noun European arum resembling the cuckoopint
  dragon arum; Dracunculus vulgaris.
  
• noun early spring-flowering plant of eastern North America resembling the related jack-in-the-pulpit but having digitate leaves, slender greenish yellow spathe and elongated spadix
  Arisaema dracontium.
  

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• (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant (Arisæma Dracontium), resembling the Indian turnip; called also dragon root.

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• . See Tragacanth.

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• noun the largest lizard in the world (10 feet); found on Indonesian islands
  giant lizard; Varanus komodoensis; Komodo lizard; dragon lizard.
  

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• a crocodile; applied by Milton to the king of Egypt.

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Rouge" drag`on noun

Etymology

F., literally, red dragon.

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1. (Her.) One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.

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Sea" drag"on

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) A dragonet, or sculpin. (b) The pegasus.

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• an old and fruitless branch of a vine. Obs. Holland.

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• noun North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers
  lizard's-tail; swamp lily; Saururus cernuus.
  
• noun swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups
  May blob; kingcup; meadow bright; cowslip; Caltha palustris; marsh marigold.
  

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