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Kirin vs Snapdragon - What's the difference?

kirin | snapdragon |

As nouns the difference between kirin and snapdragon

is that kirin is a mythical Chinese hooved chimerical creature, said to appear in conjunction with the arrival of a sage while snapdragon is any plant of the genus Antirrhinum, with showy yellow, white or red flowers supposedly like the face of a dragon.

kirin

English

(wikipedia kirin)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mythical Chinese hooved chimerical creature, said to appear in conjunction with the arrival of a sage.
  • * 1989 , Ernst J. Grube, Eleanor G. Sims, Islamic Art: Volume 3
    • ...a red and gold textile with phoenixes in one row swooping towards qilins in the next amidst a densely foliated ground...
  • * 2001 , David J. Roxburgh, Prefacing the image: the writing of art history in sixteenth-century Iran
    • Roundel depicting dragon attacked by qilins ; mounted on an album page.
  • * 2010 , Molly Blaisdell, Necdet Yilmaz, Truth about Unicorns
    • When the qilin leaves, the emperor traces the shapes he saw into the dirt.

    Synonyms

    * qilin

    snapdragon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any plant of the genus Antirrhinum , with showy yellow, white or red flowers supposedly like the face of a dragon.
  • A game in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten.
    • (Swift)

    External links

    (Antirrhinum) * (wikipedia "snapdragon")