Dragon vs. Phoenix

Difference Between Dragon and Phoenix

Dragonnoun

A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.

Phoenixnoun

(mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.

Dragonnoun

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.

Phoenixnoun

(figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed. Usually used as a simile.

Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.

Dragonnoun

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.

Phoenixnoun

(Chinese mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies.

Dragonnoun

A heraldic representation of such a beast used as a charge or as a supporter; as in the arms of Wales.

Phoenixnoun

(historical) A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.

Dragonnoun

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

Phoenixnoun

the state capital and largest city of Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural center thanks to irrigation

Dragonnoun

(obsolete) A very large snake; a python.

Phoenixnoun

a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa

Dragonnoun

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

Phoenixnoun

a legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years