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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Greek Mythology A divinity presiding over forests and trees; a wood nymph.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In mythology, a deity or nymph of the woods; a nymph supposed to reside in trees or preside over woods. See hamadryad.
  2. n. In zoology, a kind of dormouse, Myoxus dryas.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Greek mythology In Greek myth, a female tree spirit.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Class. Myth.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a deity or nymph of the woods

Etymologies

  1. From Proto-Indo-European *derew(o)- (“tree, or, wood”). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English Driad, from Latin Dryas, Dryad-, from Greek Druas, from drūs, tree; see deru- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “A fat middle-aged dryad is a dreadful sight, I always think.”

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  • “But she was sure that the dryad was the key to passage, and that there was some kind of price that would persuade her.”

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  • “Yes, better than a fairy, a dryad, that is a fairy of the tree.”

    Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1

  • “Across the gallery and down the stair -- it might have been the Golden Stair linking Near with Far -- came a score of exquisite women in all the glory of their youth, of perfect physical beauty and splendid strength and fullness of life; and the wonder was not their beauty more than a kind of dryad delicacy of that beauty, which was yet not frailty but a look of angelic strength.”

    Romance Island

  • “She alone of the five would have known what "dryad" means.”

    Winnie Childs The Shop Girl

  • “As a druid/dryad it could be a nice and logical extention of your skills. gr,”

    Kederan XV Conquering Krimmhild

  • “Vuurdoorn is a druid/dryad and a ritualist with a fascination for silly humans without really caring for their well-being.”

    Kederan XV Conquering Krimmhild

  • “The Spartan/dryad mix for your current WIP looks spectacular too.”

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  • “You know that dryad/mermaid of mine everyone loves? freyapax finished the shawl based on her.”

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  • “I wonder what's in store for the wizard and his beloved dryad ...”

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  • ofravens I must watch sluttish dryads twitch
    Their multifarious silks in the holy grove
    from "On the Plethora of Dryads," Sylvia Plath Mar 26, 2008

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