Dragon vs. Drake

Dragon vs. Drake — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Dragon and Drake

Dragonnoun

See Draco2.

Drakenoun

A male duck.

Dragonnoun

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

Drakenoun

A mayfly used as fishing bait. Also called drake fly.

Dragonnoun

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

Drakenoun

A male duck.

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Dragonnoun

A fiercely vigilant or intractable person.

Drakenoun

A mayfly used as fishing bait.

Dragonnoun

Something very formidable or dangerous.

Drakenoun

(poetic) A dragon.

Dragonnoun

(Archaic) A large snake or serpent.

Drakenoun

(historical) A small piece of artillery.

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Dragonnoun

A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.

Drakenoun

A fiery meteor.

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.

Drakenoun

A beaked galley, or Viking warship.

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.

Drakenoun

English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)

Dragonnoun

A heraldic representation of such a beast used as a charge or as a supporter; as in the arms of Wales.

Drakenoun

adult male of a wild or domestic duck

Dragonnoun

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

Dragonnoun

(obsolete) A very large snake; a python.

Dragonnoun

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

Dragonnoun

A Komodo dragon.

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