FLYING DRAGON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flying dragon mean? 

• FLYING DRAGON (noun)
  The noun FLYING DRAGON has 1 sense:

1. any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body

  Familiarity information: FLYING DRAGON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLYING DRAGON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

dragon; flying dragon; flying lizard

Hypernyms ("flying dragon" is a kind of...):

agamid; agamid lizard (a lizard of the family Agamidae)

Holonyms ("flying dragon" is a member of...):

Draco; genus Draco (a reptile genus known as flying dragons or flying lizards)

 Context examples 

I think it is for me, said my mother, and sure enough it was addressed in the most beautiful writing to Mrs. Mary Stone, of Friar’s Oak, and there was a red seal the size of a half-crown upon the outside of it with a flying dragon in the middle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They pointed out the fish and dead birds lying about among the rocks as proving the nature of the food of these creatures, and I heard them congratulating each other on having cleared up the point why the bones of this flying dragon are found in such great numbers in certain well-defined areas, as in the Cambridge Green-sand, since it was now seen that, like penguins, they lived in gregarious fashion.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)