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Dragons are large and powerful mythological creatures that appears throughout the world's cultures.
Dragon may also refer to:
[edit] Mythological dragons
[edit] Fictional dragons
- Dragon (Middle-earth), featured J. R. R. Tolkien's universe of Middle-earth
- Dragon (Wheel of Time), featured in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time fantasy series
- Dragon (Dungeons & Dragons), featured in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game
- Dragon (Inheritance), featured in Paolini's Inheritance trilogy
- Dragons (Dragon Prince), featured in Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince series
- Dragons (Pern), featured in Anne McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern series
- Dragon (Shrek), featured in the Shrek film series
- Swamp dragon (draco vulgaris), featured in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
- Luckdragon, featured in Michael Ende's novel The Neverending Story
- Krayt dragon, a large carnivorous reptile native to Tatooine in the Star Wars universe
[edit] Culture & arts
- Dragon (zodiac), a sign in the Chinese zodiac
- Dragon dance, a traditional dance in Chinese culture
- Dragon (band), a New Zealand rock band
- Dragon (album), an album by ukelele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro
- Dragon (book), an adventure novel by Clive Cussler
- Dragon (Steven Brust novel), a fantasy novel by Steven Brust
- Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, a fictionalized biographical film about Bruce Lee
- The Dragon, a poem by the Iraqi poet Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayyati
- Dragon Man, a supervillain in the fictional Marvel Comics universe
- Savage Dragon, or simply "the Dragon", a fictional Image Comics superhero
- Monkey D. Dragon, a fictional character in the anime and manga One Piece
- "Dragon", a song by The Sugarcubes from their 1988 album Life's Too Good
- Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real, a fictional documentary depicting dragons as real
- Dragon boat, a a long and narrow boat used in the Chinese team paddling sport of Dragon boat racing
- Dragon (keelboat), a class of racing sailboats
- Newport Gwent Dragons, a rugby union team that plays in the Celtic League/Heineken Cup
- St George Illawarra Dragons, a team in the National Rugby League in Australia
- San Francisco Dragons, a Major League Lacrosse team based in California, United States
- Wales national rugby union team, nicknamed The Dragons
- Drexel Dragons, Drexel University's sport teams
- Welcoat Dragons, a team in the Philippine Basketball Association
- Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese baseball team
[edit] Plants
- Dragon Spruce (Picea asperata), a medium-sized evergreen tree
- Dracaena (plant), a genus known as Dragon trees
- Dragon's blood, the tree's resin, once believed to be powerful in magic and alchemy
- Dragonfruit, the fruit of the pitaya (Hylocereus) cactus
- Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus), a small annual flowering plant
- Tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus), a perennial herb sometimes known as dragon
[edit] Animals
- Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), the largest living lizard in the world
- Bearded Dragon, the common name for any agamid lizard in the genus Pogona
- Australian Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii), an arboreal agamid native to Eastern Australia
- Dragonfly, a flying insect of the order Odonata, infraorder Anisoptera
- Military Dragon, a lizard Ctenophorus isolepis gularis or Ctenophorus maculatus.
- Lake Eyre Dragon, a lizard Ctenophorus maculosus which lives on salt pans in Australia.
- See http://www.kingsnake.com/oz/lizards/agamids/agamids.htm for a list of Australian lizards called "dragons". These are in the genera Amphibolurus, Caimanops, Chelosania, Cryptagama, Ctenophorus, Diporiphora, Hypsilurus, Lophognathus, Physignathus, Pogona, Tympanocryptis.
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[edit] Other uses
- Draco (constellation)
- Dragon School, a renowned British preparatory school in Oxford, named after their rugby team, "The Dragons"
- The Dragon Academy, a small, private high school in Toronto, Ontario
- M47 Dragon, an American shoulder-fired anti-tank missile system
- Vlad II Dracul (cca. 1390–1447), or Vlad II the Dragon, a voivode (prince) of Wallachia
- Dragon Models Limited, a Hong Kong based manufacturer of plastic model kits and military figures
- Justin Dragon (porn star) (born 1976), a pornographic actor from the United States
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