dragon vs mammoth

dragon

noun
  • Something very formidable or dangerous. 

  • In Western mythology, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath. 

  • A background process similar to a daemon. 

  • A Komodo dragon. 

  • The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China. 

  • A transvestite man, or more broadly a male-to-female transgender person. 

  • A type of playing-tile (red dragon, green dragon, white dragon) in the game of mahjong. 

  • In Eastern mythology, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent. 

  • Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona. 

  • A fierce and unpleasant woman; a harridan. 

  • A variety of carrier pigeon. 

  • A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature. 

  • A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle. 

  • The constellation Draco. 

  • A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent. 

mammoth

noun
  • Something very large of its kind. 

  • Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia. 

adj
  • Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic. 

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