dryad

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"I will pretend that you are a charming dryad, and I--what shall I be My friend," she said calmly, and drew her hand away from him Votre ami?

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

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  • Hiatus was the son of the dour Zombie Master and Millie the Ghost, while Desiree was a dryad: a tree nymph. —  The Dastard
  • One large tree had a dryad, an inhabiting wood nymph, who looked very fetching, about like Iris at fourteen, but who cursed Bink roundly in most unladylike language. —  A Spell for Chameleon
  • Dor and Bink had visited briefly with a dryad, a wood nymph associated with a particular tree, resembling a pretty girl of about Millie's present age. —  Castle Roogna
  • But she was sure that the dryad was the key to passage, and that there was some kind of price that would persuade her. —  Cube Route
  • For Desiree was a dryad, a nymph associated with a tree. —  Geis of the Gargoyle
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  1. Middle English Driad, from Latin Dryas, Dryad-, from Greek Druas, from drūs, tree; see deru- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. =D. G. Danish dryade = Swedish dryad = French dryade = Spanish dríade, dríada = Portuguese dryas = Italian driada, driade, from Latin dryas (dryad-), from Gr.δρυάς(δρυαδ-), a wood-nymph, from δρῦς, a tree, especially and commonly the oak, = English tree, q. v. Cf. hamadryad.
 

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