dryad
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Brilliantly rendered by Rebecca Benson, she shins up trees like a dryad, only to be told by her would-be boyfriend, "you smell like an infected bandage".
From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2013
If you stray off the path a jean-clad dryad yells you back on the right course.
From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2012
In the books she read, every stream might be a river god, every tree a dryad in disguise, every old woman a powerful fairy, every pebble an enchanted soul.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
The dryad who would have perished with it told him to ask anything he desired and she would give it.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Behind them, he glimpsed a girl-formed dryad step from the apple tree from which he had plucked the apples.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Vocabulary lists containing dryad
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 7
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Circe
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