DRACO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Draco mean? 

• DRACO (noun)
  The noun DRACO has 3 senses:

1. Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC)

2. a faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus

3. a reptile genus known as flying dragons or flying lizards

  Familiarity information: DRACO used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRACO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Athenian (a resident of Athens)

lawgiver; lawmaker (a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws)

Derivation:

Draconian (of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Draco; Dragon

Instance hypernyms:

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A reptile genus known as flying dragons or flying lizards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Draco; genus Draco

Hypernyms ("Draco" is a kind of...):

reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "Draco"):

dragon; flying dragon; flying lizard (any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body)

Holonyms ("Draco" is a member of...):

Agamidae; family Agamidae (an Old World reptile family of Sauria)

 Context examples 

It is located about 560 light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco.

(Astronomers confounded by massive rocky world, NASA)

NGC 6503 is 18 million light-years away from us in the northern circumpolar constellation of Draco.

(Lonely Galaxy Lost in Space, NASA)

Inspired by the way neurons connect in the human brain, this artificial neural network sifted through Kepler data and found weak transit signals from a previously-missed eighth planet orbiting Kepler-90, in the constellation Draco.

(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)