dragon
龙,龍,龙形,龙的
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Definitions
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- : a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
- : Archaic. a huge serpent or snake.
- : Bible. a large animal, possibly a large snake or crocodile.
- : the dragon, Satan.
- : a fierce, violent person.
- : a very watchful and strict woman; duenna.
- : flying dragon.
- : Botany. any of several araceous plants, as Arisaema dracontium, the flowers of which have a long, slender spadix and a green, shorter spathe.
- : a short musket carried by a mounted infantryman in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- : a soldier armed with such a musket.See also dragoon.
- : Astronomy. the constellation Draco.
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Examples
One of the Higher Education Act’s architects lamented that the Guaranteed Student Loan Program quickly became a “fund-eating dragon.”
Kathryn set up where the natural light was brightest in her Petworth apartment, put on jeans and “a super cozy alpaca sweater that feels like a hug,” and ordered emperor’s dragon noodles and a gimlet-style cocktail from Tiger Fork in Shaw.
It feels like unfolding an elaborate piece of origami step by step, a sequence of secret creases that show how easily a humming bird or dragon can become an ordinary piece of paper again.
Shai Meiri, a herpetologist at Tel Aviv University, has previously shown that many dragon lizards live in small, hard-to-access areas, making the reptiles difficult to study.
After the encounter, he recovered the famed sword Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi and also won the hand of the woman who he saved from the dragon.
How to Train Your Dragon 2, the tenth highest grossing movie in 2014 America, made $22 million at the Korean box office.
In one picture, his head gets ripped off by a blue dragon; in another, he is the blue dragon.
Screen-filling enemies like the aforementioned dragon come early and they come often.
Look at The Killing, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, all of these Scandinavian things with female investigators.
Consider a song like “Crayon” by G-Dragon, a member of the boy band Big Bang.