Dragon's Tail

Dragon's Tail, dragon tail, etc. may refer to the tail of a dragon. Dragon's Tail may also refer to:

Astronomy

• Dragon's Tail (lunar) (Latin: Cauda Draconis; File:Descending node (fixed width).svg), an alternate name for the descending lunar node in astronomy and astrology
  • Ketu (mythology), the personification of the descending lunar node in Hindu astronomy, astrology, and religion
• Dragon's Tail (Chinese constellation), another name of the Chinese mansion Tail (near Scorpio) in the constellation of the Azure Dragon
• Dragon's Tail (star), another name for Thuban in the constellation Draco, which was the pole star from 3942 to 1793 BC

Places

• Dragon's Tail (peninsula), a phantom feature appearing east of the Golden Chersonese in Ptolemaic and Islamic maps for centuries
• Yongmunso, Korea, a site supposedly dug by a dragon's tail
• Mokoliʻi, Hawaiʻi, USA, supposedly the remains of a dragon or lizard's tail
• Kontuey Neak (Khmer for "Dragon Tail"), a Cambodian rain forest
• Bạch Long Vĩ island (Viet for "White Dragon Tail"), a Vietnamese island
• Dragons Tail, a ridge near Bearhat Mountain in Montana, United States
• The Dragon's Tail (road), an informal name for a winding stretch of U.S. Route 129 in North Carolina and Tennessee
• The Dragon's Tail (trail), a winding stretch of the Forest of Dean in Gloucester in the United Kingdom
• "The Dragon's Tail" (Latin: Draco Cola), an occasional name for the Strait of Magellan

Other

• dragon's tail fern (Asplenium × ebenoides)
• Dragon's Tail (tincture), an alternate name for the tincture sanguine
• "A Dragon's Tail" (episode) (2006), an episode of the Jane and the Dragon television series
• A Dragon's Tail (2008), a book in the Jane and the Dragon series of books by Martin Baynton
• "Dragon's Tail" (episode) (2006), an episode of GoGo Sentai Boukenger
• The Dragon's Tail (play), a 1985 play by Douglas Watkinson
• Dragon's Tail, a set of speed slides at Six Flags White Water in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States
• Dragon's Tail, Yukimura Sanada's spear in the Samurai Warriors series

See also

• Mission Incredible: Adventures on the Dragon's Trail (2012), a movie in the Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf series
• Under the Dragon's Tail (book) (1998), a novel in Maureen Jennings's Detective Murdoch series
• Under the Dragon's Tail (film) (2005), a film adaptation of Jenning's book
• "Biting the Dragon's Tail" (1995), a single by Jonathan Saul Kane
• Tickling the Dragon's Tail, a 1946 failed experiment to test the exact point at which fissile material could be made critical, after which hands-on criticality experiments were discontinued in the United States
• Chasing the Dragon’s Tail (1991), a book by Alan Rabinowitz about saving wild cats in Thailand
• Fuxi and Nüwa, figures in Chinese mythology often depicted as jiaolong with dragon or serpent tails instead of legs
• Ouroboros, the serpent or dragon which devours its own tail
• Pistis Sophia, a Gnostic text
• "Ode on Melancholy" (1819), a poem by John Keats