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dryad

[drahy-uhd, -ad] / ˈdraɪ əd, -æd /


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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

A dryad brought him bread made from walnuts and a bowl of crushed apricots stewed with honey.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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




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