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icedrake

noun

Etymology

From ice + drake.

  1. derived from δράκων
  2. derived from dracō
  3. derived from *drakō✻
  4. inherited from draca
  5. inherited from drake — “dragon; Satan”
  6. compounded as icedrake — “ice + drake”

Definitions

  1. A dragon which breathes ice or has a freezing body temperature.

    • Rearing back its awesome spined and crested head, the icedrake roared — in challenge, maybe, or in scorn of the little scraps of humankind who cowered beneath the shadow of its wings […]

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