(drag′ən) noun
1. A fabulous, serpentlike, winged monster.
2. In the Authorized Version, a word variously understood as a large reptile, a marine monster, a jackal, etc.
3. A fierce or overbearing person; especially, a duenna.
4. Bot. A plant of the arum family.
5. A short, large–bored firearm of the 17th century.
6. Zool. A small, arboreal, Asian lizard (genus Draco) capable of making long glides between trees by means of winglike expansions of the skin which are supported by the elongated and extensible hind ribs; a flying lizard. [<F <L draco, -onis <Gk. drakōn serpent]
DRAGON LIZARD
(From 12 to 15 inches long)

(drag′ən)
A northern constellation, Draco. See CONSTELLATION.