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A four-legged winged reptile with a barbed tail.
Also known as: Wyvern
The heraldic dragon has four legs, bat-like wings, a scaled body and a barbed tongue and tail. The two-legged version is a wyvern, a separate charge — the distinction is real in blazon and constantly ignored outside it.
A four-legged winged reptile with a scaled body, bat-like wings and a barbed tail and tongue.
Distinguished in blazon from the wyvern, which has two legs rather than four; English heraldry treats them as separate charges even where popular usage does not.
The red dragon passant is the badge of Wales and appears on its flag, with a documented association reaching back to medieval Welsh usage.
Wales
A four-legged scaled reptile with bat-like wings, clawed feet, a forked or barbed tongue and a barbed tail.
Both are heraldic monsters with codified forms.