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Dinosaur and Dragon Definitions

Dinosaur

Any of various extinct terrestrial reptiles of the orders Saurischia and Ornithischia that existed during the Mesozoic Era, including both carnivores and herbivores and often reaching a gigantic size.

Dragon

See Draco2.

Dinosaur

Any of various other large extinct reptiles, such as an ichthyosaur.

Dragon

A mythical monster traditionally represented as a gigantic reptile having a long tail, sharp claws, scaly skin, and often wings.

Dinosaur

A relic of the past
"living dinosaurs of the world of vegetation" (John Olmsted).

Dragon

Any of various lizards, such as the Komodo dragon or the flying lizard.
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Dinosaur

One that is hopelessly outmoded or unwieldy
"The old, big-city teaching hospital is a dinosaur" (Peggy Breault).

Dragon

A fiercely vigilant or intractable person.

Dinosaur

(scientific) any of the animals belonging to the clade Dinosauria, especially those that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct.

Dragon

Something very formidable or dangerous.

Dinosaur

(colloquial) any member of the clade Dinosauria other than birds.

Dragon

(Archaic) A large snake or serpent.
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Dinosaur

(proscribed) Any extinct reptile, not necessarily belonging to Dinosauria, that existed between about 230 million and 65 million years ago.

Dragon

A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.

Dinosaur

Something or someone that is very old or old-fashioned, or is not willing to change and adapt.

Dragon

In Western mythology, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.

Dinosaur

Anything no longer in common use or practice.

Dragon

In Eastern mythology, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent.
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Dinosaur

One of the Dinosauria.

Dragon

An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:

Dinosaur

Any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era

Dragon

(obsolete) A very large snake; a python.

Dragon

Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.

Dragon

A Komodo dragon.

Dragon

The constellation Draco.

Dragon

(pejorative) A fierce and unpleasant woman; a harridan.
She’s a bit of a dragon.

Dragon

The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
Napoleon already warned of the awakening of the Dragon.

Dragon

(figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.

Dragon

A type of playing-tile (red dragon, green dragon, white dragon) in the game of mahjong.

Dragon

A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.

Dragon

A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.

Dragon

A background process similar to a daemon.

Dragon

A variety of carrier pigeon.

Dragon

(slang) A transvestite man, or more broadly a male-to-female transgender person.

Dragon

A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious.
The dragons which appear in early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile.
Thou breakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.

Dragon

A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.

Dragon

A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.

Dragon

A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.

Dragon

A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; - so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.

Dragon

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.

Dragon

A variety of carrier pigeon.

Dragon

A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.

Dragon

A creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings

Dragon

A fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman

Dragon

A faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus

Dragon

Any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body

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