Definitions
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).”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Two-legged dragon”6 letters
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