dryad

Example Sentences

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He writes, “I have called this plant Dryas after the dryads, the nymphs that live in oaks, since the leaf has a certain likeness to the oak leaf.”

From New York Times

The children meet other creatures based on classical myth - centaurs, minotaurs, satyrs and dryads.

From The Guardian

But contrast with that scene in the original 2007 computer game where you have to talk to a dryad in a swamp.

From Time

Toreadors, Gypsies, dryads, kids pretending to be puppets, reams of classical dance and a standard story of two lovers outwitting the girl’s father — all in under three hours.

From New York Times

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