Meaning

2 senses

  1. A huge limbless and wingless dragon or dragonlike creature.

  2. A huge limbless and wingless dragon or dragonlike creature.

    A sea serpent.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. The domestic dragon is all that remains of the wild wyrm.

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Origin

Learned borrowing from Old English wyrm. Doublet of worm, which was inherited.

Learned borrowing from Old English wyrm. Doublet of worm, which was inherited.

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Forms

plural: wyrms
Singularwyrm
Pluralwyrms

regular

Word family

3 related words
RelatedwormB2sea serpent
Derivedwyrmling

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
wryC1wuduwussxxenobiologyxenoglossia
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