hamadryad
noun
a dryad who is the spirit of a particular tree.
hamadryads
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pluralof hamadryad.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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At first Jurgen could not believe her, but presently Jurgen was convinced, through at least two of his senses, that what Chloris told him was true about hamadryads.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell
In the shadowed spots fauns and hamadryads wooed, unconscious of the gaze of mortal eyes.
From The Four Million by O. Henry
They were also bitten in large numbers by the venomous hamadryads which used to abound there, and from the poison of which some died.
From Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 by John Frederick Adolphus McNair
The nymphs of the wood and the spring, the hamadryads of the forests, the fauns and satyrs should reign once more in the woods before they placed the sceptre in the hands of winter.
From Frederick the Great and His Family by Mrs. Chapman Coleman
Old oaks and beeches open wide their doors And hamadryads veiled in golden sheen Floating diaphanous o'er robes of green Walk with still feet the forest's russet floors.
From The Path of Dreams Poems by Leigh Gordon Giltner
