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雙足飛龍
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Wiver \Wiv"er\, Wivern \Wiv"ern\, n. [OE. wivere a serpent, OF.
wivre, guivre, F. givre, guivre, wiver, from L. vipera;
probably influenced by OHG. wipera, from the Latin. See
{Viper}, and cf. {Weever}.]
1. (Her.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a
cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without
spurs. [Written also {wyvern}.]
The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold
warps, its wiverns, and its dragons. --Sir W.
Scott.
2. (Zo["o]l.) The weever.
資料來源 : WordNet®
wivern
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: {wyvern}]