guivre

guivre (plural guivres)

1. (heraldry, mythology) 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).
   • 1984, Dragons, Time Life Medical:

     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 […]

Inherited from Old French guivre (whence also vouivre), from Latin vīpera. Related to English wyvern.

• IPA^(key): /ɡivʁ/

guivre f (plural guivres)

1. (heraldry, mythology) a guivre (seprentine creature, variously limbless or winged and two-legged)

• “guivre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.