firedrake

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A firedrake, angered at the loss of a part of a treasure, which he had for three hundred years been guarding in a cavern, laid waste the land in the hero's kingdom.

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  1. noun A fire-breathing dragon of Germanic mythology.

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  1. Middle English firdrake, from Old English fȳrdraca : fȳr, fire; see fire + draca, dragon; see drake2.

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  1. from Middle English firedrake, from Anglo-Saxon fyrdraca(= German feuerdrachen), from fy¯r, fire, + draca, drake, dragon: see drake, dragon.
 

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/ˈfaɪrdreɪk/
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