green dragon

Questions about green dragon

What does green dragon mean?

green dragon means "European arum resembling the cuckoopint". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for green dragon?

Close synonyms include dragon arum, Dracunculus vulgaris, Arisaema dracontium. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is green dragon a common word?

green dragon is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.