hamadryad
English
Etymology
Latin Hamadryas, from Ancient Greek Ἁμαδρυάς (Hamadruás), from ἅμα (háma, “together”) + δρῦς (drûs, “tree”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hæməˈdɹaɪæd/
Noun
hamadryad (plural hamadryads or hamadryades)
- (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 kind of baboon, Papio hamadryas, venerated by the ancient Egyptians.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Hamadryas and Tellervo.
Translations
a woodnymph
The king cobra
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See also
- Daphne
- Meliai
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