n. A fabulous animal common to the conceptions of many primitive races and times, or, as in the Bible an indefinite creature of great size or fierceness.n. In zoöl.: A lizard of the genus Draco, specifically called the flying-dragon.n. Any one of the monitor-lizards.n. In ornithology, a kind of carrier-pigeon. Also called dragoon.n. A fierce, violent person, male or female; now, more generally (from the part of guardian often played by the dragon in mythology), a spiteful, watchful woman; a duenna.n. [capitalized] An ancient northern constellation, Draco.n. A short firearm used by dragoons in the seventeenth century, described as having a barrel 16 inches long, with a large bore.n. An old kind of standard or military ensign, so called because it was decorated with a dragon painted or embroidered upon it, or because it consisted (like the Anglo-Saxon standard at Hastings, as seen in the Bayeux tapestry) of a figure of a dragon carried upon a staff.n. A name given to various araceous plants, as in England to Arum maculatum; the brown dragon, Arisœma triphyllum; the green dragon, Dracunculus vulgaris, and in the United States Arisœma Dracontium; the female or water dragon, Calla palustris.n. In Scotland, a paper kite.n. See the extract.Pertaining to or resembling dragons; performed by dragons; fierce; formidable.n. The larva of a European notodontid moth, Hybocampa millhauseri, having remarkably angular outlines and conspicuous corners and humps, so that it resembles an oak-leaf curled and eaten by a tortricid larva.n. The hellgrammite fly, Corydalus cornutus.
