draco
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• noun
(capitalized) A large circumpolar constellation in the northern sky winding between Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, representing the mythical dragon Ladon.
"Using a star chart, the astronomy students traced the winding outline of Draco between the Big and Little Dippers."
Any of various small arboreal lizards of the genus Draco (family Agamidae), native to the forests of South and Southeast Asia and characterized by winglike membranes of skin supported by elongated ribs that enable them to glide between trees.
(capitalized) A 7th-century BC Athenian lawgiver notorious for authoring a written legal code that prescribed death for even minor offenses, giving rise to the term 'draconian'.
"Historians often contrast the harsh statutes of Draco with the later constitutional reforms introduced by Solon."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Latin draco ('serpent, dragon'), which derives from Ancient Greek drakōn ('serpent, giant seafish'). The Athenian legislator Draco (Drakōn) also gave English the adjective 'draconian'.
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