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dryad

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dry·ad  (drd, -d)
n. Greek Mythology
A divinity presiding over forests and trees; a wood nymph.
[Middle English Driad, from Latin Dryas, Dryad-, from Greek Druas, from drs, tree; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]
dry·adic (-dk) adj.
dryad
Noun
pl dryads or dryades [dry-ad-deez] Greek myth a wood nymph [Greek druas]
dryad
a wood nymph.
See also: Mythology
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Noun1.dryad - a deity or nymph of the woods
wood nymph
nymph - (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden; "the ancient Greeks believed that nymphs inhabited forests and bodies of water"
hamadryad - the nymph or spirit of a particular tree


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the tree at whose foot I lay had opened its rocky side, and in the cleft, like a long lily-bud sliding from its green sheath, stood a dryad, and my speech failed and my breath went as I looked upon her beauty, for which mortality has no simile.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
With these she decorated her hair and her young waist, and became a nymph child, or an infant dryad, or whatever else was in closest sympathy with the antique wood.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Why, it's a time and place when and where everything might come true--when the men in green might creep out to join hands and dance around the fire, or dryads steal from their trees to warm their white limbs, grown chilly in October frosts, by the blaze.
The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
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