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The entire concept of a wyvern is a fairly recent one. Tom Send a noteboard - 16/12/2013 04:48:15 PM

It generally just applies to a two-legged dragon, so in the traditional (i.e., starting in the 17th Century when the term came around) nomenclature, all wyverns are dragons but not all dragons are wyverns.

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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

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