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5 days ago · dragon, in the mythologies, legends, and folktales of various cultures, a large lizard- or serpent-like creature, conceived in some traditions as evil and in others as beneficent. In medieval Europe, dragons were usually depicted with wings and a barbed tail and as breathing fire.
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- The term dragon has no zoological meaning, but it is used in the Latin generic name Draco for several small lizard species found in the Indo-Malaya...
- The English word dragon comes from the Greek word drakōn, which was used originally for any large serpent, and the dragon of mythology, whatever sh...
- In Asian cultures, the dragon managed to retain its prestige and is known as a beneficent creature. The Chinese dragon, the lung, represents yang,...
- A dragon is usually represented as a huge, bat-winged, fire-breathing, scaly lizard or snake with a barbed tail. The belief in these creatures appa...
5 days ago · This is a list of dragons in film and television. The dragons are organized by either film or television and further by whether the media is animation or live-action. They are sorted alphabetically by name or if there is none, by the name of the media.
5 days ago · In 105 AC, Daemon Targaryen became the second member of his family to mount Caraxes, the large red dragon known as the Blood Wyrm.
2 days ago · After eight years of negotiations, Japan has approved the import of Taiwan's diverse red dragon fruits, including red-fleshed varieties. The first shipment has been dispatched from Taiwan, with the fruit expected to be sold in Japanese supermarkets. Taiwan's Ministry of Agriculture is hopeful that the quality of its dragon fruit will surpass Vietnam's, the main competitor, and expects the ...
5 days ago · Known as the "Red Queen," this female dragon has copper strips along her red body and is known as one of the swiftest dragons.
3 days ago · The lawmaker was speaking at a ceremony in Taichung marking the launch of red dragon fruit exports to Japan. Tokyo approved its import from Taiwan last month following eight years of negotiations. Mai, a Vietnamese immigrant, said she liked the fruit so much during a visit to Taiwan that she cut one up and hid the pieces in her luggage to take back to Vietnam, per CNA .
5 days ago · dragonfly, (suborder Anisoptera), any of a group of roughly 3,000 species of aerial predatory insects most commonly found near freshwater habitats throughout most of the world. Damselflies (suborder Zygoptera) are sometimes also called dragonflies in that both are odonates (order Odonata ).
