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Draco

noun

Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC).

A faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus. Synonym: Dragon.

A reptile genus known as flying dragons or flying lizards. Synonym: genus Draco.

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Dracaena draco

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"Draco" Quotes from Famous Books

... inquiries into the nature of nebulae. The excursions of opinion on the point were abruptly restricted and defined by the application to them of the spectroscope. On August 29, 1864, Sir William Huggins sifted through his prisms the rays of a bright planetary nebula in Draco.[1510] To his infinite surprise, they proved to be mainly of one colour. In other words, they avowed their origin from a mass of glowing vapour. As to what kind of vapour it might be by which Herschel's ...

— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

... Fluctus surgunt turbulenti; Navis currit, sed currenti Tot occurrunt obvia! Hic sirenes voluptatis, Draco, canes cum piratis, Mortem pene desperatis ...

— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams

... curious thing that I, Who in my ordinary clothes would hardly hurt a fly, Hold to the rigour of the law when I put on gown and wig, As if for mere humanity I didn't care a fig. For once I'm seated on the bench I do not shrink or flinch From the reddest laws of Draco, or ...

— Three Wonder Plays • Lady I. A. Gregory

Words linked to "Draco" : flying lizard, Athenian, reptile genus, Dracaena draco, flying dragon, family Agamidae, lawmaker, lawgiver, Agamidae, constellation, genus Draco