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wyvern
or ɾ·
[ wahy-vern ]
noun
- a two-legged winged dragon having the back part of a serpent with a barbed tail.
wyvern
/ ˈɲɪə /
noun
- a heraldic beast having a serpent's tail and a dragon's head and a body with wings and two legs
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wyvern1
C17: variant of earlier wyver, from Old French, from Latin ī viper
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Gryphons and foxes and wyverns stare at him with glossy black eyes.
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My words-of-the-day—like “stupendous” and “wyvern,” the dragon—are of no help.
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Griffin-riders spied angry wyverns and swerved away, unclear as to whether they were all at war.
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Mean-eyed dragons, amphibious leonine creatures, bat-like wyverns that puff themselves up like fluffy hamsters – Monster Hunter World’s creatures are amazing, and hunting them with a selection of overblown, cartoonish weapons is incredible fun.
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Four-legged dragons—not vicious, bipedal wyverns like those on the royal seal.
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