Definitions for Dryas

Dryas dry·as

Spelling: [drahy-uh s]
IPA: /ˈdraɪ əs/

Dryas is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in Dryas (adrsy).

Definitions for Dryas

noun

  1. any creeping plant belonging to the genus Dryas, of the rose family, having solitary white or yellow flowers, comprising the mountain avens.

Origin of Dryas

New Latin, named after species of wood nymphs; see dryad

Examples for Dryas

There are only a few kinds of dryas, shrubby plants, living in cold and arctic regions.

Colder and marshy situations, where there is no reflected heat, produce Pedicularis hirsuta and flammea, with dryas octopetala.

The other species are Trichosoma myoxi nitel, and Ophiostoma cristatum from Myoxus dryas, and M. muscardinus.

But dryas chasing a dog who had stolen some meat rushed out-doors, met Daphnis and brought him home.

The first signal from the mother, a mellow, solicitous coo-ee transforms them into immovable pebbles or tufts of dryas.

He played too the melody of Dionysus and to it dryas footed the dance of the vintage.

The mountain avens, dryas octopetala, belongs to the same nat.

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