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a dragon that lost a coin flip for arms but kept the menace
means A winged, two-legged dragon-like creature of heraldry and legend, distinguished from the classic dragon by having only one pair of legs and often a barbed, serpentine tail.
from From Middle English 'wyvere,' a borrowing of Old French 'wivre' (serpent, viper), which traces back to Latin 'vipera' — the same root that gives us 'viper.' So the wyvern is, etymologically, a snake that sprouted wings; the final '-n' was tacked on later in English, possibly by analogy with words like 'bittern.' Its viper ancestry shows in that whipping, venom-tipped tail.
- limb count
- two legs, two wings, zero arms
- heraldry star
- crawls across countless coats of arms
- venom rep
- its barbed tail was rumored to poison
- name origin
- from Old French wivre, meaning viper
- dragon snob
- purists insist true dragons have four legs
wales flag — the red dragon (wyvern-like creature) on the flag of wales, officially adopted in 1959
wessex kingdom — the wyvern was the heraldic symbol of the saxon kingdom of wessex in anglo-saxon england