dryad
noun
a deity or nymph of the woods.
dryades
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pluralof dryad.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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To hazards that the oils Eschewed, haste dryades that were taught To dance.
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by Jean de Esque
And dryades whom the mists have struck With ague—A Sceptre of Despair!
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by Jean de Esque
"We will be nymphs and dryades, and all sorts of woodland things."
From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson
The branches of the trees lash one another like penitential dryades.
From Pictures of Sweden by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
In the woods the dryades Hear the sounding pipes of Pan, Leave their temples of the trees And return to haunts of man; This the song they sweetly sing— Ave!
From His Lady of the Sonnets by Robert W. Norwood
