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Word entry · 6 letters

wyvern

Best crossword clue

"Two-legged dragon"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈwaɪvən/Part of speech nounSorted enrvwyStarts with WEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A two-legged winged dragon from heraldry and fantasy.

Word origin

Alteration of Middle English wyver (“viper”), from Old Northern French wivre, from Vulgar Latin *vivra, *vibra, from Latin vīpera (“viper; snake, serpent”). Doublet of weever and viper. Related to viviparous.

Used in a sentence

  • Notions of freedom are tied up in drink / Our ideal life contains a tavern / Where man may sit and talk of or just think / All without fear of the nighted wyvern, / Or yet another tavern where it appears.
  • Above the shield was the well-known Midland crest of a legless wyvern (a wyvern normally has two legs).

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