guivre

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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).

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Meanings

nounguivre (plural guivres)

plural guivres

  1. governmentA 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

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Guiver
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APA

guivre. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guivre

MLA

“guivre.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guivre. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “guivre,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guivre.

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