river dragon
noun
1The Nile crocodile (chiefly with allusion to a Pharaoh of ancient Egypt).
2A mythical creature said to inhabit rivers in China.
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in John Milton (1608–1674), poet and polemicist.
- northernisation
- northernise
- northernised
- northernism
- northernization
- northernize
- northernized
- Northern Lights
- northernly
- northern manatee
- Northern Marianas
- northernmost
- Northern Neck
- northernness
- northern oriole
- northern phalarope
- northern pine
- Northern Province
- Northern Rhodesia
- northern rock cress
- northern sea cow
- northern sea lion
- northern snakehead
- Northern soul
- northern spotted owl