Definitions for hamadryad

hamadryad ham·a·dry·ad

Spelling: [ham-uh-drahy-uh d, -ad]
IPA: /ˌhæm əˈdraɪ əd, -æd/

Hamadryad is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in hamadryad (aaaddhmry).

Definitions for hamadryad

noun

  1. Classical Mythology. a dryad who is the spirit of a particular tree.
  2. king cobra.

Origin of hamadryad

Latin, stem of Hamādryas wood nymph Greek, equivalent to hama together with (cognate with same) + dryás dryad

Examples for hamadryad

However it may be, the Burman is not ready to kill the hamadryad.

Such a sad mistake did Dryope once make, and suffered for her carelessness by being changed from a mortal into a hamadryad.

The hamadryad was born with the tree, flourished and died with it.

Science (or rather half-way science) scoffs at reminiscence of dryad and hamadryad, and of trees speaking.

Every tree has a hamadryad, who lives in it, who is born when it first grows, and who dies when it dies.

Why, you'll look like a hamadryad, all in these wood browns!

It is a place in which a poet might look for a glimpse of a hamadryad.

It is like the bite of a hamadryad,” he said softly, “but there is no mark.

He got up to meet her as she approached, a hamadryad in white muslin, across the grass.

Pomona was a hamadryad, and was so devoted to the care of her trees that she scorned the idea of love.

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