Lizard vs. Dragon — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Lizard and Dragon
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Lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic as it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia; some lizards are more closely related to these two excluded groups than they are to other lizards.
Dragon
A dragon is a large, serpentine, legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as winged, horned, four-legged, and capable of breathing fire.
Lizard
Any of numerous squamate reptiles often classified in the suborder Lacertilia, characteristically having a scaly elongated body with a tapering tail, four legs, movable eyelids, and external ear openings.
Dragon
See Draco2.
Lizard
Leather made from the skin of one of these reptiles.
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Dragon
A mythical monster traditionally represented as a gigantic reptile having a long tail, sharp claws, scaly skin, and often wings.
Lizard
Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or an amphisbaenian, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.
Dragon
Any of various lizards, such as the Komodo dragon or the flying lizard.
Lizard
Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
Dragon
A fiercely vigilant or intractable person.
Lizard
(colloquial) An unctuous person.
Dragon
Something very formidable or dangerous.
Lizard
(colloquial) A coward.
Dragon
(Archaic) A large snake or serpent.
Lizard
(rock paper scissors) A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
Dragon
A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.
Lizard
(in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.
Lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard
Dragon
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.
Lizard
Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.
Dragon
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.
Lizard
A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.
Dragon
An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
Lizard
A piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field.
Dragon
(obsolete) A very large snake; a python.
Lizard
Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
Dragon
Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.
Lizard
A man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him
Dragon
A Komodo dragon.
Dragon
The constellation Draco.
Dragon
(pejorative) A fierce and unpleasant woman; a harridan.
She’s a bit of a dragon.
Dragon
The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
Napoleon already warned of the awakening of the Dragon.
Dragon
(figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.
Dragon
A type of playing-tile (red dragon, green dragon, white dragon) in the game of mahjong.
Dragon
A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.
Dragon
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.
Dragon
A background process similar to a daemon.
Dragon
A variety of carrier pigeon.
Dragon
(slang) A transvestite man, or more broadly a male-to-female transgender person.
Dragon
A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious.
The dragons which appear in early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile.
Thou breakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.
Dragon
A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.
Dragon
A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.
Dragon
A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.
Dragon
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.
Dragon
A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.
Dragon
A variety of carrier pigeon.
Dragon
A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.
Dragon
A creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
Dragon
A fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman
Dragon
A faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus
Dragon
Any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body
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