Dragon vs. Phoenix

See Draco2.

(Mythology)A bird in Egyptian mythology that lived in the desert for 500 years and then consumed itself by fire, later to rise renewed from its ashes.

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

A person or thing of unsurpassed excellence or beauty; a paragon.

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

Phoenix A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor.

A fiercely vigilant or intractable person.

(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.

Something very formidable or dangerous.

(figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.

(Archaic) A large snake or serpent.

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

A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.

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

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.

(obsolete) A marvelous person or thing.

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.

(Australia) To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liability

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

Same as Phenix.

(obsolete) A very large snake; a python.

A genus of palms including the date tree.

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

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

A Komodo dragon.

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

The constellation Draco.

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

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

A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor

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

(figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.

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

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

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.

A background process similar to a daemon.

A variety of carrier pigeon.

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

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.

A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.

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

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

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.

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.

A variety of carrier pigeon.

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

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

A fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman

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

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