7. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A variety of carrier pigeon.
8. (Her.)
Defn: A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.
Note: Dragon is often used adjectively, or in combination, in the sense of relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a dragon. Dragon arum (Bot.), the name of several species of Arisæma, a genus of plants having a spathe and spadix. See Dragon root(below). — Dragon fish (Zoöl.), the dragonet. — Dragon fly (Zoöl.), any insect of the family Libellulidæ. They have finely formed, large and strongly reticulated wings, a large head with enormous eyes, and a long body; — called also mosquito hawks. Their larvæ are aquatic and insectivorous. — Dragon root (Bot.), an American aroid plant (Arisæma Dracontium); green dragon. — Dragon's blood, a resinous substance obtained from the fruit of several species of Calamus, esp. from C. Rotang and C. Draco, growing in the East Indies. A substance known as dragon's blood is obtained by exudation from Dracæna Draco; also from Pterocarpus Draco, a tree of the West Indies and South America. The color is red, or a dark brownish red, and it is used chiefly for coloring varnishes, marbles, etc. Called also Cinnabar Græcorum. — Dragon's head. (a) (Bot.) A plant of several species of the genus Dracocephalum. They are perennial herbs closely allied to the common catnip. (b) (Astron.) The ascending node of a planet, indicated, chiefly in almanacs, by the symbol Encyc. Brit. — Dragon shell (Zoöl.), a species of limpet. — Dragon's skin, fossil stems whose leaf scars somewhat resemble the scales of reptiles; — a name used by miners and quarrymen. Stormonth. — Dragon's tail (Astron.), the descending node of a planet, indicated by the symbol Dragon's head (above). — Dragon's wort (Bot.), a plant of the genus Artemisia (A. dracunculus). — Dragon tree (Bot.), a West African liliaceous tree (Dracæna Draco), yielding one of the resins called dragon's blood. See Dracæna. — Dragon water, a medicinal remedy very popular in the earlier half of the 17th century. "Dragon water may do good upon him." Randolph (1640). — Flying dragon, a large meteoric fireball; a bolide.
DRAGONET
Drag"on*et, n.
1. A little dragon. Spenser.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); — called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie.
DRAGONISH
Drag"on*ish, a.