Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Australian fish which belongs to any one of the species of the genus Phyllopteryx, of the family Syngnathidæ.
- noun A fish, Pegasus draco; a flying sea-horse. See cut under
Pegasidæ . - noun A kind of dragonet. See cut under
Callionymus .
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Examples
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Xinhua/Zuma Press The Jiaolong surfaces from a dive in the South China Sea in July 2010 The Jiaolong—named after a mythical sea-dragon—left China on board an oceanographic research ship on July 1.
China to Dive for Buried Treasures Jeremy Page 2011
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He has exciting adventures – some of which seem a little too much, such as being swallowed by a legendarily giant sea-dragon while en route to the Isle of Sleep.
Reading Challenge #9 – Lord Valentine’s Castle, Robert Silverberg « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2009
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Amongst bony fish Conseil noticed some about three yards long, armed at the upper jaw with a piercing sword; other bright-coloured creatures, known in the time of Aristotle by the name of the sea-dragon, which are dangerous to capture on account of the spikes on their back.
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In front her face is human, and her breast fair as a maiden's to the waist down; behind she is a sea-dragon of monstrous frame, with dolphins 'tails joined on her wolf-girt belly.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Chick thought of the sea, too, but the thought gave the child one more idea, and it promptly tumbled the Silver Pig over the side of a ship and landed the adventurous animal upon the b ottom of the ocean, where (Chick went on to say) it became acquainted with pretty mermaids and huge green lobsters, and rescued an amaryllis from a fierce and disagreeable sea-dragon.
John Dough And The Cherub Baum, L. Frank 1906
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The pillars are so contrived that the little cavern is light in every part; at the entrance is an immense sea-dragon with large glaring eyes and a long red tongue hanging half-way out.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896
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The very helpers of the sea-dragon [209] crouch under him.
The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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And by his understanding he smiteth the sea-dragon.
The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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Amongst bony fish Conseil noticed some about three yards long, armed at the upper jaw with a piercing sword; other bright-coloured creatures, known in the time of Aristotle by the name of the sea-dragon, which are dangerous to capture on account of the spikes on their back.
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866
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The pillars are so contrived that the little cavern is light in every part; at the entrance is an immense sea-dragon with large glaring eyes and a long red tongue hanging half-way out.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 Eug��nie Hamerton 1864
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