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guivre

guivre noun: a serpentine creature, variously one with no limbs (like a simple snake, but often depicted swallowing someone), or with wings and only two legs (a wyvern).

guivre: a serpentine creature, variously one with no limbs (like a simple snake, but often depicted...
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Noun

guivre (plural guivres)

  1. A serpentine creature, variously one with no limbs (like a simple snake, but often depicted swallowing someone), or with wings and only two legs (a wyvern).
    • The guivre / The legless and wingless guivre would have seemed a mere serpent, albeit an immensely powerful one, except for its massive dragon head, horned and bearded. Guivres liked to live in forests and wells—anywhere near water[…]1984, Dragons, Time Life Medical

Forms of guivre

pluralguivres

Questions about guivre

What does guivre mean?
Guivre means a serpentine creature, variously one with no limbs (like a simple snake, but often depicted swallowing someone), or with wings and only two legs (a wyvern).
What part of speech is guivre?
Guivre is a noun.
What is the plural of guivre?
The plural of guivre is guivres.

Words near guivre in the dictionary

  1. Guittonian
  2. Guity
  3. Guitys
  4. Guiuan
  5. Guiver
  6. guivre
  7. guivres
  8. Guixi
  9. Guixian
  10. Guiyang
  11. Guiyu

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