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Dra' Abu el-Naga
Dra' Abu el-Naga is a hill and cemetery on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, used as a burial ground for about 2,500 years.
Drâa-Tafilalet
Drâa-Tafilalet is a region of southeastern Morocco created by the 2015 reorganization, centered on the Drâa and Tafilalet oases and covering 88,836 km².
Draba
Draba (whitlow-grasses), largest genus of Brassicaceae in tribe Arabideae, over 370 arctic-alpine species on every continent except Australia and Antarctica; monophyletic but with artificial sectional classifications.
Dracaena (plant)
Dracaena, commonly called dragon plant or dragon tree, is a genus of about 224 species of trees and shrubs in the asparagus family, native to Old World tropics.
Dracaena cinnabari
Dracaena cinnabari, the Dragon's Blood Tree, is a Vulnerable IUCN-listed tree endemic to Socotra, Yemen, famed for red dragon's blood resin, umbrella canopies, slow 2–3 cm growth, and threats from goats, cyclones, and overgrazing.
Dracaena Collection
Dracaena Collection (龙血树园), the dragon blood tree garden at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan, China; established 2002 on 16 mu, holding 78 species and varieties including 31 Dracaena taxa conserved for Dragon's Blood medicine.
Dracaena draco
Dracaena draco, the Canary Island dragon tree or drago, is an Endangered tree-like monocot of the Canary Islands, Madeira, Cabo Verde, and Morocco, known for dragon's blood resin, flowering-driven branching, and the ancient El Drago Milenario of Tenerife.
Dracaena fragrans
Dracaena fragrans (corn plant, cornstalk dracaena) is a tropical African Asparagaceae tree or shrub with fragrant night-opening flowers, a common houseplant, formerly split as D. deremensis, IUCN Least Concern.
Dracaena sanderiana
Dracaena sanderiana, lucky bamboo or ribbon plant, is a West African Asparagaceae shrub sold as a houseplant; not a true bamboo, toxic to cats and dogs via saponins, and the top benzene-removing plant in an 8-species screening study.
Dracaena trifasciata
Dracaena trifasciata (syn. Sansevieria trifasciata), snake plant or mother-in-law's tongue, is a rhizomatous African geophyte in Asparagaceae, reclassified from Sansevieria to Dracaena in 2017, native from Nigeria to Tanzania, 2n=40, widely grown as a houseplant.
Draco (constellation)
Draco, the Dragon, is a large circumpolar constellation of the northern sky listed by Ptolemy, whose star Thuban was the pole star when the Egyptian pyramids were built.
Draco (Δράκων) (legislator)
Draco (Δράκων), Athenian lawgiver of c. 624–621 BCE, credited with Athens' first written law code; only his homicide law (republished 409/8 BCE) is securely attested, and 'Draconian' harshness is largely later tradition.
Draco Dwarf
The Draco Dwarf, also called Draco dSph, is a faint satellite galaxy of the Milky Way in the constellation Draco about 260,000 light-years away, dominated by dark matter.
Draco Malfoy
Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter's Slytherin school rival, only child of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy. Raised at Malfoy Manor in pure-blood supremacy, later a reluctant Death Eater; adult life, Cursed Child father of Scorpius, and film, stage, and HBO portrayals.
Draco Rosa
Draco Rosa, born Robert Edward Rosa Suárez, is a Puerto Rican-American singer and songwriter known for co-writing Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca" and for experimental rock en español solo albums.
Dracocephalum
Dracocephalum (dragonhead) is a Lamiaceae genus of about 70 aromatic herb species of the temperate Northern Hemisphere; Hyssopus and Lallemantia are embedded within it, and D. moldavica is its most-studied medicinal species.
Draconian constitution
Draconian constitution: the written code of laws attributed to the Athenian lawgiver Draco, issued c. 621/620 BCE and famous for capital punishment of nearly all offenses; only his homicide law survived Solon's repeal.
Draconids
The Draconids, historically called the Giacobinids, are an annual meteor shower from comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, peaking around October 8 and best viewed in the evening from Draco.
Dracozolt, Arctozolt, Dracovish, and Arctovish
Dracozolt (パッチラゴン), Arctozolt, Dracovish, and Arctovish are the four hybrid Fossil Pokémon of Pokémon Sword and Shield, made by mismatching Bird, Fish, Drake, and Dino fossils; Dracovish was banned from OU for Fishious Rend.
Dracula
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic novel by Bram Stoker about a Transylvanian count who moves to London and preys on the living, becoming the defining work of vampire fiction.
Dracula (1931 English-language film)
Dracula (1931 English-language film), Tod Browning's Universal horror classic starring Bela Lugosi; the first sound version of Stoker's story, shot on the same daytime sets as George Melford's Spanish-language Drácula.
Dracula (1958 film)
Dracula (1958), released in the US as Horror of Dracula, is Hammer Films' Technicolor Gothic horror directed by Terence Fisher, starring Christopher Lee as Dracula and Peter Cushing as Van Helsing; a 1958 BBFC-cut classic restored in 4K with long-lost Japanese-release footage.
Dracula (1979 film)
Dracula (1979) is John Badham's Universal horror film starring Frank Langella as a seductive Count, adapted from his 1977 Broadway role, with Laurence Olivier as Van Helsing; released 13 July 1979, 109 minutes, R.
Dracula (2013 TV series)
Dracula (2013 TV series): NBC/Sky Living ten-episode period drama starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as a revived Vlad the Impaler posing as American entrepreneur Alexander Grayson in 1896 London, seeking revenge on the Order of the Dragon; premiered October 25, 2013, one season, shot in Budapest.
Dracula (2020 TV series)
Dracula (2020) is a three-episode BBC One and Netflix miniseries by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, starring Claes Bang, Dolly Wells, and John Heffernan, adapting Bram Stoker's 1897 novel with a modern-day third episode.
Dracula (2025 French film)
Dracula (Dracula: A Love Tale) is Luc Besson's 2025 French gothic romance-horror film adapted from Bram Stoker, starring Caleb Landry Jones, Christoph Waltz, and Zoë Bleu; released 30 July 2025 in France, distinct from Radu Jude's 2025 Dracula.
Dracula (2025 Romanian film)
Dracula (2025 Romanian film) is Radu Jude's 170-minute comedy-horror anthology in which a blocked filmmaker uses a fake AI chatbot to make a vampire movie, premiering at Locarno 2025; distinct from Luc Besson's Dracula: A Love Tale.
Dracula (Castlevania)
Dracula (Castlevania): recurring vampire lord antagonist of Konami's Castlevania series since Akumajo Dracula (1986), final boss in nearly every game, master of Castlevania, enemy of the Belmont clan; also the Netflix series villain voiced by Graham McTavish, reprised in Belmont's Curse (2026).
Dracula (Marvel Comics)
Dracula is Marvel Comics' vampire lord, adapted from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel and Vlad III Tepes, debuting in Atlas' Suspense #7 (1953) and headlining Tomb of Dracula (1972-1979, 70 issues) by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan, the series that introduced Blade, Hannibal King, and Lilith.
Dracula (song)
Dracula is a 2025 disco-pop single by Tame Impala (Kevin Parker), co-written with Sarah Aarons and the third single from the album Deadbeat; a February 2026 remix with Jennie went viral on TikTok and drove its Hot 100 success.