Dragon vs. Phoenix

Dragon vs. Phoenix — Is There a Difference?
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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.

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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

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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

Dragonnoun

A Komodo dragon.

Phoenixnoun

a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor

Dragonnoun

The constellation Draco.

Dragonnoun

(pejorative) A fierce and unpleasant woman; a harridan.

She’s a bit of a dragon.

Dragonnoun

The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.

Napoleon already warned of the awakening of the Dragon.

Dragonnoun

(figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.

Dragonnoun

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

Dragonnoun

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

Dragonnoun

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.

Dragonnoun

A variety of carrier pigeon.

Dragonnoun

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

Dragonnoun

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

Dragonnoun

a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman

Dragonnoun

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

Dragonnoun

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