Definition for DRAG'ON'S-HEAD

DRAG'ON'S-HEAD, n.

A proposed popular name of certain plants of the genus Dracocephalum, of which term it is a translation. Dragon's Head and Tail, in astronomy, are the nodes of the planets, or the two points in which the orbits of the planets intersect the ecliptic. – Encyc.

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