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Noun Concept
Categories: Folklore, English phrases, Dragons, Cartography, Articles with short description
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Here be dragons  Hic abundant Leones  Here There be Dragons  Here there be Tigers  HC SVHT DRACONES
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"Here be dragons" means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist. Wikipedia
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"Here be dragons" means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist. Wikipedia
Phrase used on geographical maps. Wikipedia Disambiguation
phrase used on maps to indicate uncharted areas Wikidata
IS A
Latin phrase
NAMED AFTER
dragon
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Here be dragons
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here be dragons
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HC SVHT DRACONES, HC SVNT DRACONES, here are lions, Here Be dragons, Here be Dragons, Here by dragons, Here there be Dragons, Here There be Dragons, Here there be Tigers, Here There Be Tigers, Hic abundant Leones, Hic Abundant Leones, Hic abundant leones, hic sunt dracones, Hic sunt leones, HIC SVNT DRACONES, Thar be dragons
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hic sunt dracones

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