Dracula
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See also: Drácula
Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Medieval Latin or later, draco (“serpent, dragon”) -ula (“diminutive”)
Proper noun
[edit]Dracula f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Orchidaceae – certain orchids.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, monocots – clades; Asparagales – order; Orchidaceae – family
Hyponyms
[edit]- (genus): Dracula chimaera - type species; Dracula subg. Dracula, Dracula subg. Sodiroa, Dracula subg. Xenosia (subgenera)
- For a list of the numerous species, see Dracula on WikipediaWikipedia or Dracula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
References
[edit]- Dracula (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Dracula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Dracula on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Dracula at National Center for Biotechnology Information
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the name Vlad III Dracula (also known as Vlad Țepeș (“Vlad the Impaler”)), from the name of his father Vlad II Dracul, who was given the name Dracul by the Order of the Dragon. Dracul (literally “the Devil”) comes from the Romanian drac (“devil”), itself deriving from the Latin dracō (“dragon”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Dracula
- (fiction) The fictional vampire in the novel of the same name by Bram Stoker.
- Synonym: Count Dracula
- A former prince of Wallachia.
Translations
[edit]fictional vampire
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former prince of Wallachia
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Noun
[edit]Dracula (plural Draculas)
- (nonstandard) Any vampire.
- 2004 November 16, Brian Mitsoda, Chad Moore, TJ Perillo, Jason D. Anderson, Leonard Boyarsky, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, →OCLC, spoken by Dr. Ingvar Johansen (J. Grant Albrecht):
- But he would have had to have been over 250 years old! Like a Dracula or something.
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