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n. Greek & Roman Mythology A wood nymph who lives only as long as the tree of which she is the spirit lives.

n. See king cobra.

n. A wood-nymph who was physically a part of her tree; fell the tree, kill the nymph.

n. The king cobra.

n. A kind of baboon, Papio hamadryas, venerated by the ancient Egyptians.

n. A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.

n. A large venomous East Indian snake (Ophiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras.

n. In Greek myth, a wood-nymph believed to live and die with the tree to which she was attached.

n. In entomology: A dryad or wood-nymph, a butterfly of the old genus Hamadryas.

n. plural A group of lepidopterous insects.

n. In herpetology, a large, hooded, venomous Indian serpent, Naja hamadryas or Hamadryas elaps, now Ophiophagus elaps. It is related to the cobra.

n. In mammalogy, a large Abyssinian baboon, Cynocephalus hamadryas, with long mane and whiskers and tufted tail. Also called hebe.

n. the nymph or spirit of a particular tree

n. large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja

"So in some vague way Charlie felt he had to go and say that to the tree, as if his father lived hi it like a god damned hamadryad or something; he found it very embarrassing to remember the thing at all, but he remembered, he remembered."

wood nymph    dryad    cobra   

Daphne    Meliai   

colubrine    oak-leaf    oread    canzonet    sambur    monad    chockful    mongoose    sylph    faun