Dragon vs. Serpent: What's the Difference?

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(Zoology) A snake.

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

Often Serpent In the Bible, the creature that tempted Eve, identified in Christian tradition with Satan.

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

A subtle, sly, or treacherous person.

A fiercely vigilant or intractable person.

A firework that writhes while burning.

Something very formidable or dangerous.

(Music) A deep-voiced wind instrument of serpentine shape, used principally from the 1600s to the 1800s, about 2.5 meters (8 feet) in length and made of brass or wood.

(Archaic) A large snake or serpent.

Serpent Serpens.

A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.

A snake, especially a large or dangerous one.

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.

(figurative) A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.

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.

(musical instruments) An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).

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

A kind of firework with a serpentine motion.

(obsolete) A very large snake; a python.

To wind or meander

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

To encircle.

A Komodo dragon.

Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia.

The constellation Draco.

Fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.

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

A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.

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

The constellation Serpens.

(figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.

A bass wind instrument, of a loud and coarse tone, formerly much used in military bands, and sometimes introduced into the orchestra; - so called from its form.

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

To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander.

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

To wind; to encircle.

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.

Limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

A background process similar to a daemon.

A firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited

A variety of carrier pigeon.

An obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake

(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