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In some senses, firedrake is marked as figuratively, poetic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A fire-breathing dragon.
[…] the incensed firedrake, in revenge, flies all over the land, vomiting fire and smoke in every direction, […]
Then was the folk-scather for the third of times yet, The fierce fire-drake, all mindful of feud;
A fiery meteor, an ignis fatuus, a rocket
A kind of firework
A worker at a furnace or fire