hamadryad
IPA: hˈæmʌdrˈaɪæd
noun
- (Greek mythology) A wood-nymph who was physically a part of her tree; she would die if her tree were felled.
- The king cobra.
- A baboon of species Papio hamadryas, venerated by the ancient Egyptians.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Hamadryas and Tellervo.
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Examples of "hamadryad" in Sentences
- The term hamadryad has several uses.
- The moss people are similar to a Hamadryad.
- Hamadryads are just a specific kind of dryad.
- Being a hamadryad, she was linked to a specific tree.
- If the tree died, the hamadryad associated with it died as well.
- The hamadryad is the largest land based lifeform native to the planet.
- He bound himself to the hamadryad Ephira, therefore turning her into a monster.
- The dread hamadryad leered at him; poisonous toads and lizards scurried for cover.
- The poet's hamadryad and naiad, what are they, indeed, but cobwebby fictions, which must be brushed away if ideal truth is to be revealed?
- In the pale, elusive moonlight, and with that startled poise of figure, she might well have been the hamadryad at bay of one of her most famous dances.
- There was about Hazlitt's wooing of Rachel the pathos which might distinguish the love affair of a Baptist angel and the hamadryad daughter of a Babayaga.
- Not only does it happen in poetry, but common people often go farther than the poet and begin believing in the hamadryad in the wood or the spirit of the waters.
- But when they raised her from the floor they discovered the real cause of her death, for a second hamadryad, which had been concealed by her skirts, darted noiselessly under the bed.
- Any face might look out from that mist, any white feet of nymph or hamadryad pass among the glimmering aisles; in the dim, lilac-tinted distance it may be that Merlin still sleeps in his vaporous magic circle.
- So in some vague way Charlie felt he had to go and say that to the tree, as if his father lived hi it like a god damned hamadryad or something; he found it very embarrassing to remember the thing at all, but he remembered, he remembered.
- This hamadryad was destined in the outcome to dwindle into a village housewife, she would have taken a lively interest in the number of eggs the hens were laying, she would even have assured her children, precisely in the way her father spoke of John Hughes, that young people ordinarily have foolish fancies which their rational elders agree to disregard.