Regarding the term "dragon" and "wyrm" Wyrm is known in English to depict the creature fought by the hero Beowulf. That creature is either referred as "wyrm" or "draca". For any decent Tolkien reader (which I am not) this is totally important just because Tolkien was a huge fan of Beowulf and his depiction of Smaug is rooted in that fight.
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In ancient Germanic lore at least, they were called "worm", "orm", "wyrm" and later "lindworm". Now worms or snakes don't normally have legs or even wings. But up through the ages, these were added to their characteristics. The epic poem of Beowulf was the first to describe a dragon/wyrm as having a fiery breath and bat-wings.
How do we distinguish a dragon, a wyrm and a wyvern in terms of the number of legs? As I have seen lots of interest around this answer, more precisely around the number of legs (as @lfurini said), I have decided to open a question to find a canonical answer. From the discussion (...
How do we distinguish a dragon, a wyrm and a wyvern in terms of the number of legs?
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