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Dragon

A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious.

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Wivern 76% connected

A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs.

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Wyvern 76% connected

Same as Wiver. X () X, the twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, has three sounds; a compound nonvocal sound (that of ks), as in wax; a compo…

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Firedrake 92% connected

A fiery dragon.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tartar 92% connected

A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Basilisk noun · 78% connection

small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs; of tropical America

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Centaur noun · 78% connection

A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.

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Cephalization noun · 78% connection

Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the…

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Chichevache noun · 78% connection

A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.

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Cockatoo noun · 78% connection

A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuinae, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a…

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Cockatrice noun · 78% connection

A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent.

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Crest noun · 78% connection

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpe…

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Cupid n . · 78% connection

The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow.

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Enormous adjective · 78% connection

Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime.

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Fabulous adjective · 78% connection

Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero.

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Gecko noun · 78% connection

Any lizard of the family Geckonidae. The geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, ellipt…

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Gila monster unknown · 78% connection

A large tuberculated lizard (Heloderma suspectum) native of the dry plains of Arizona, New Mexico, etc. It is the only lizard known to…

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Goldcrest noun · 78% connection

The European golden-crested kinglet (Regulus cristatus, or R. regulus); -- called also golden-crested wren, and golden wren. The name…

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Griffon noun · 78% connection

A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art.

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Harpy noun · 78% connection

A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pa…

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Head noun · 78% connection

The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an an…

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Hippogriff noun · 78% connection

A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin.

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Hoatzin noun · 78% connection

crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings

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