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Dragon's Tail

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Dragon's Tail, dragon tail, etc. may refer to the tail of a dragon.

Dragon's Tail may also refer to:

Astronomy

  • Dragon's Tail (lunar) (Latin: Cauda Draconis; U+260B.svg), an alternate name for the descending lunar node in astronomy and astrology
    • Ketu (mythology), the personification of the descending lunar node in Hindu astronomy, astrology, and religion
  • Dragon's Tail (Chinese constellation), another name of the Chinese mansion Tail (near Scorpio) in the constellation of the Azure Dragon
  • Dragon's Tail (star), another name for Thuban in the constellation Draco, which was the pole star from 3942 to 1793 BC

Places

  • Dragon's Tail (peninsula), a phantom feature appearing east of the Golden Chersonese in Ptolemaic and Islamic maps for centuries
  • Yongmunso, Korea, a site supposedly dug by a dragon's tail
  • Mokoliʻi, Hawaiʻi, USA, supposedly the remains of a dragon or lizard's tail
  • Kontuey Neak (Khmer for "Dragon Tail"), a Cambodian rain forest
  • Bạch Long Vĩ island (Viet for "White Dragon Tail"), a Vietnamese island
  • Dragon's Tail, a ridge on Bearhat Mountain near Sperry Glacier in Montana in the United States
  • The Dragon's Tail (road), an informal name for a winding stretch of U.S. Route 129 in North Carolina and Tennessee
  • The Dragon's Tail (trail), a winding stretch of the Forest of Dean in Gloucester in the United Kingdom
  • "The Dragon's Tail" (Latin: Draco Cola), an occasional name for the Strait of Magellan

Other

  • dragon's tail fern (Asplenium × ebenoides)
  • Dragon's Tail (tincture), an alternate name for the tincture sanguine
  • "A Dragon's Tail" (episode) (2006), an episode of the Jane and the Dragon television series
  • A Dragon's Tail (2008), a book in the Jane and the Dragon series of books by Martin Baynton
  • "Dragon's Tail" (episode) (2006), an episode of GoGo Sentai Boukenger
  • The Dragon's Tail (play) by Douglas Watkinson (1985)
  • Dragon's Tail, the poop deck of the Dawn Treader in C. S. Lewis's Narnia series
  • Dragon's Tail, a set of speed slides at Six Flags White Water in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States
  • Dragon's Tail, Yukimura Sanada's spear in the Samurai Warriors series

See also

  • Mission Incredible: Adventures on the Dragon's Trail (2012), a movie in the Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf series
  • Under the Dragon's Tail (book) (1998), a novel in Maureen Jennings's Detective Murdoch series
  • Under the Dragon's Tail (film) (2005), a film adaptation of Jenning's book
  • "Biting the Dragon's Tail" (1995), a single by Jonathan Saul Kane
  • Tickling the Dragon's Tail, a 1946 failed experiment to test the exact point at which fissile material could be made critical, after which hands-on criticality experiments were discontinued in the United States
  • Chasing the Dragon’s Tail (1991), a book by Alan Rabinowitz about saving wild cats in Thailand
  • Fuxi and Nüwa, figures in Chinese mythology often depicted as jiaolong with dragon or serpent tails instead of legs
  • Ouroboros, the serpent or dragon which devours its own tail
  • Pistis Sophia, a Gnostic text
  • "Ode on Melancholy" (1819), a poem by John Keats
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