Citations:amphiptere

English citations of amphiptere

• 1963, Julian Franklyn, Shield and Crest: An Account of the Art and Science of Heraldry, MacGibbon & Kee, →OCLC, page 151:

  This reptilian two-legged double-headed mixture, generally known as the basilisk, is sometimes named the amphisian cockatrice, and in its chief characteristics it differs in no way from the amphiptere, a creature that may be seen in the stone-carving in a number of English churches. Southwark Cathedral has a fine specimen.

• 1994, D. J. Conway, Dancing with Dragons: Invoke Their Ageless Wisdom and Power, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 8:

  In heraldry, a dragon with two legs is called a wyvern; a dragon without wings is a worm; a serpentine dragon with wings but no legs is an amphiptere; a dragon with wings and legs is termed a guivre.

• 2003, Nosson Slifkin, Mysterious Creatures: Intriguing Torah Enigmas of Natural and Unnatural History, Targum Press:

  [...] its poisonous breath); the lindorm or blindworm (similar to the guivre, except that it possessed a pair of hind legs); and the amphiptere (a limbless winged serpent generally reported from the Middle East and North Africa).

• 2011 September 8, Shawn MacKenzie, The Dragon Keeper's Handbook: Including the Myth & Mystery, Care & Feeding, Life & Lore of these Fiercely Splendid Creatures, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 41:

  The people of the Aegean and Adriatic Seas were very familiar with such dragons. Known as agathos daimones (“good spirits”), these creatures looked like large winged serpents and were believed to be the physical manifestation of caring and, some might say, meddlesome ancestors. In shape and purpose, they're comparable to the legless amphipteres, watchers of the world who serve as aegises for warriors as fierce as they.