DRACULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dracula mean? 

• DRACULA (noun)
  The noun DRACULA has 2 senses:

1. comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having bizarre and often sinister-looking flowers with pendulous scapes and motile lips

2. fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker

  Familiarity information: DRACULA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRACULA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having bizarre and often sinister-looking flowers with pendulous scapes and motile lips

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Dracula; genus Dracula

Hypernyms ("Dracula" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Holonyms ("Dracula" is a member of...):

family Orchidaceae; orchid family; Orchidaceae (enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

 Context examples 

But I am in hopes that I shall see more of you at Castle Dracula.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Even among ants that power-amplify their jaws, the Dracula ants are unique: Instead of using three different parts for the spring, latch and lever arm, all three are combined in the mandible."

(Dracula Ant Found to Be Fastest Creature on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In the meantime I must find out all I can about Count Dracula, as it may help me to understand.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The team also conducted computer simulations of the mandible snaps of different castes of Dracula ants to test how the shape and structural characteristics of the mandibles affected the power of their snap.

(Dracula Ant Found to Be Fastest Creature on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In the records are such words as 'stregoica'—witch, 'ordog,' and 'pokol'—Satan and hell; and in one manuscript this very Dracula is spoken of as 'wampyr,' which we all understand too well.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

New study revealed that the Dracula ant or Mystrium camillae, has the fastest animal movement on record as it can snap its mandibles at speeds of up to 90 meters per second, which makes it more than 200 miles per hour.

(Dracula Ant Found to Be Fastest Creature on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He must, indeed, have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of Turkey-land.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Unlike trap-jaw ants, whose powerful jaws snap closed from an open position, Dracula ants power up their mandibles by pressing the tips together, spring-loading them with internal stresses that release when one mandible slides across the other, similar to a human finger snap.

(Dracula Ant Found to Be Fastest Creature on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Ground of inquiry.—Count Dracula's problem is to get back to his own place. He must be brought back by some one.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The loop it makes is manifestly as close to Dracula's castle as can be got by water.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)