Dryad

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Greek Mythology A divinity presiding over forests and trees; a wood nymph.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. In Greek myth, a female tree spirit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In mythology, a deity or nymph of the woods; a nymph supposed to reside in trees or preside over woods. See hamadryad.
  • n. In zoology, a kind of dormouse, Myoxus dryas.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a deity or nymph of the woods
  • Cross Reference
    hamadryad    Daphne    Meliai   
    Variant
    dryades   
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