Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the form of a dragon; dragon-like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective resembling a dragon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the characteristics of a
dragon .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Aliens" famously ends with Weaver's character, Ellen Ripley, battling the dragonish alien monster queen after strapping herself into a giant forklift-like machine whose enormous pincers she mechanically controls by maneuvering her own slender arms -- a technology that puts the puny human, finally, on a par with her gigantic, razor-toothed, acid-bleeding adversary.
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Liz is taking some time out, so it is Big Red, Abe, the Professor and some grunts that get to go and play with monsters, and cover Chinese military types, as well as a village of dragonish people.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Dragon Pool - Christopher Golden Blue Tyson 2008
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Liz is taking some time out, so it is Big Red, Abe, the Professor and some grunts that get to go and play with monsters, and cover Chinese military types, as well as a village of dragonish people.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Hellboy - 08 The Dragon Pool Blue Tyson 2008
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"Aliens" famously ends with Weaver's character, Ellen Ripley, battling the dragonish alien monster queen after strapping herself into a giant forklift-like machine whose enormous pincers she mechanically controls by maneuvering her own slender arms -- a technology that puts the puny human, finally, on a par with her gigantic, razor-toothed, acid-bleeding adversary.
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She collected figurines and jigsaw puzzles of a dragonish fantasy nature - wizards and sorcerers also welcome.
Sorry Dot. ailbhe 2008
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Behind, the dragonish gnyarl still hemmed them in.
The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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Between the absence of Hagrid and the presence of those dragonish horses, he had felt that his return to Hogwarts, so long anticipated, was full of unexpected surprises, like jarring notes in a familiar song.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003
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A pair of blank, white, shining eyes were growing larger through the gloom and a moment later the dragonish face, neck and then skeletal body of a great, black, winged horse emerged from the darkness.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003
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Their heads were dragonish, and their pupil-less eyes white and staring.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003
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I mentioned it one day after Fall and -- " She gave a helpless shrug. " -- everyone wanted to know their dragonish name.
The Chronicles of Pern McCaffrey, Anne 1993
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