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/ˈwaɪvən/ · noun
(heraldry, mythology, fantasy) A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail..
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.
[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 rewarded his attention.
Above the shield was the well-known Midland crest of a legless wyvern (a wyvern normally has two legs).
Use wyvern when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wyvern means (heraldry, mythology, fantasy) A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail..
Common synonyms include wivern.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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