Dragon

Dragon is a legendary animal, commonly with serpentine or reptilian traits, that attributes in the misconceptions of several societies. There are two distinct social customs of dragons: the European dragon, stemmed from European individual practices as well as ultimately pertaining to Greek as well as Center Eastern mythologies, as well as the Chinese dragon, with counterparts in Japan (particularly the Japanese dragon), Korea and other Eastern Asian nations. [1]
Both traditions could have progressed separately, but have actually affected each various other to a certain extent, particularly with the cross-cultural contact of current centuries. The English word dragon stems from Greek δράκων (drákōn), "dragon, serpent of substantial size, water-snake"The word dragon entered the English language in the very early 13th century from Old French dragon, which subsequently originates from Latin draconem (nominative draco) definition "big serpent, dragon", from the Greek word δράκων, drakon (genitive drakontos, δράκοντος) "serpent, gigantic seafish"The Greek and Latin term referred to any kind of wonderful serpent, not necessarily mythical, and also this usage was additionally present in English up to the 18th century.
A dragon is a mythical depiction of a reptile. In antiquity, dragons were primarily imagined as snakes, however given that the Middle Ages, it has actually become usual to illustrate them with legs, resembling a reptile.

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