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wyverns

wyverns is the plural of wyvern.

Meaning of wyvern

Noun

wyvern (plural wyverns)

  1. A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail.
    • [I]f (notwithstanding his obligations to the three ermines passant) he sometimes cursed in his heart the jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its moldwarps, its wyverns, and its dragons, with all the bitterness of Hotspur himself, there were moments when these communications interested his fancy and...1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], “Castle-Building”, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London...

Questions about wyverns

What is wyverns the plural of?
Wyverns is the plural of wyvern.

Words near wyverns in the dictionary

  1. wyueles
  2. Wyuna
  3. Wyuna East
  4. wyver
  5. wyvern
  6. wyverns
  7. wyvers
  8. wyves
  9. Wywoda
  10. wz
  11. WZS

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