Dragon

Dragon is a legendary creature, commonly with serpentine or reptilian qualities, that attributes in the misconceptions of many cultures. There are 2 distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European individual practices and eventually pertaining to Greek and also Middle Eastern mythologies, and the Chinese dragon, with equivalents in Japan (specifically the Japanese dragon), Korea and also other East Oriental countries.

The two traditions might have evolved separately, but have affected each other to a specific degree, especially with the cross-cultural call us of current centuries. The English word dragon stems from Greek δράκων (drákōn), "dragon, snake of massive dimension, water-snake"The word dragon went into the English language in the early 13th century from Old French dragon, which then originates from Latin draconem (nominative draco) significance "huge snake, dragon", from the Greek word δράκων, drakon (genitive drakontos, δράκοντος) "snake, giant seafish"The Greek and also Latin term referred to any type of wonderful serpent, not always mythological, as well as this use was likewise present in English as much as the 18th century.
A dragon is a mythological representation of a reptile. In antiquity, dragons were mainly envisaged as snakes, however given that the Center Ages, it has ended up being usual to illustrate them with legs, resembling a lizard.

Dragons are typically shown in modern times with a body like a big lizard, or a snake with two sets of lizard-type legs, and able to discharge fire from their mouths. The European dragon has bat-like wings growing from its back. A dragon-like creature with wings but only a solitary set of legs is referred to as a wyvern.