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Had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs
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wyvern
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A wyvern or wivern is a two-legged dragon often represented in heraldry. Wyvern or wivern can also refer to: Wyvern, the pen-name of Colonel Arthur Robert Kenney-Herbert Wyvern (film) , a Sci Fi Pictures original film. Wyvern (card game) , a collectible ...
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n. a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs [syn: wivern ]
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n. (context heraldry mythology English) Mythical dragon-like creature, having wings, only two legs and a barbed tail.
Usage examples of wyvern.
The dragon, originally known as Bazil of Quosh, had been the proudest issue of their line of Legion wyverns.
In the middle of this clutter and bustle rose the great broch of the Wyvern clan.
He remembered suddenly, clearly, standing upon the banked coals of a goatling campfire and later bathing his horn in the firebowl of a wyvern sorceress.
Instead of using her wings, as the wyverns had done, she sculled her body back and forth like a snake.
Now, my first command is for you to lead me to where Drake Vireo, the green wyvern, lives.
Drake Vireo, the green wyvern, who was to steal the other two pieces, yes?
Otherworld, I, Aisling Grey, Guardian of the portals of Abaddon, do hereby issue a formal challenge of transcendence to the one who is mated to me, Drake Vireo, the wyvern of the green dragons.
Drake Vireo, wyvern to the green dragon sept, will accept your challenge, body to body.
That would be Drake Vireo, the green wyvern, the dragon whose mate you say you are not?
Drake Vireo, wyvern of the green dragons, accept and acknowledge your fealty.
Drake Vireo, wyvern of the green dragons, accept and acknowledge your fealty, You will forever hence be known as my mate, and as such will receive all protection, honor, and respect due you.
Behind him came a griffin, a wyvern, a four-footed whale, several carnivorous rabbits, a pair of trolls, a thunderbird, a sliver cat, a hippogriff, a satyr, a winged horse, three hoopsnakes, a pantheon, a firedrake, a monoceros, a double-headed eagle, a cyclops, a flight of barnacle geese, a chimera, and a number of creatures of less ordinary aspect that Dor could not identify in the rush.
In the cells in the Barbican, where former Commander Porteous Glaves paced, the song of the wyverns only increased the level of tension.
Two reguardant wyverns, collared in blue and chained in gold, supported it.
The only stingless ones to have survived among the wyverns had hatched since the death of the wyvern queen.