dracontine

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin draco (dragon).

Adjective[edit]

dracontine (not comparable)

  1. Belonging to a dragon.
    • c. 1829?, Robert Southey, The Young Dragon
      He sate in fell despite,
      Till this dracontine cockatrice
      Should break its way to light

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dracontine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)