Dryad
['draɪəd;-æd] or ['draɪæd]
Definition
(n.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Wood-nymph.
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Definition
n. (Greek myth.) a nymph of the woods: a forest-tree.
Typist: Paul
Examples
- Are you Nymph, Dryad, or Oread? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- What Dryad was born of these throes? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Nothing loath, Helena did so, and was shortly one mass of delicious bloom, from which her face peered out like some laughing Dryad. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Dora, peeping from the floss of her fair hair, hung back like some tiny Dryad, that has no soul. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But Dora edged away like a tiny Dryad that will not be touched. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- One great old pear-tree--the nun's pear-tree--stood up a tall dryad skeleton, grey, gaunt, and stripped. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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