Hamadryad

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  • noun. A wood nymph who lives only as long as the tree of which she is the spirit lives.
  • noun. undefined
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In Greek myth, a wood-nymph believed to live and die with the tree to which she was attached.
  • noun. In entomology: A dryad or wood-nymph, a butterfly of the old genus Hamadryas.
  • noun. plural A group of lepidopterous insects.
  • noun. In herpetology, a large, hooded, venomous Indian serpent, Naja hamadryas or Hamadryas elaps, now Ophiophagus elaps. It is related to the cobra.
  • noun. In mammalogy, a large Abyssinian baboon, Cynocephalus hamadryas, with long mane and whiskers and tufted tail. Also called hebe.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.
  • noun. A large venomous East Indian snake (Ophiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A wood-nymph who was physically a part of her tree; fell the tree, kill the nymph.
  • noun. The king cobra.
  • noun. A kind of baboon, Papio hamadryas, venerated by the ancient Egyptians.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the nymph or spirit of a particular tree
  • noun. large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja
  • Word Usage
    "So in some vague way Charlie felt he had to go and say that to the tree, as if his father lived hi it like a god damned hamadryad or something; he found it very embarrassing to remember the thing at all, but he remembered, he remembered."
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    Daphne  Meliai  
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    cobra  dryad  wood nymph  
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