dragon
noun
a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
dragoness
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a word derived from
dragon.
Example Sentences
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The egg hatches into a beautiful, powerful and somewhat sassy blue dragoness named Saphira with whom Eragon forms a telepathic bond.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brave words, those, to the dragoness of Justice.
From A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties by Charles Major
Straightway large-eyed queenly Hera took him and bringing one evil thing to another such, gave him to the dragoness; and she received him.
From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard) Evelyn-White
Whosoever met the dragoness, the day of doom would sweep him away, until the lord Apollo, who deals death from afar, shot a strong arrow at her.
From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard) Evelyn-White
St. George's little affair with the fiery dragon grows pale when one thinks of the icy dragoness of duty and justice you must overthrow before you can rescue Rita.
From A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties by Charles Major
