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Hamadryad

noun

(pl. E. hamadryads, L. hamadryades)

The nymph or spirit of a particular tree.

Large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja. Synonyms: king cobra, Naja hannah, Ophiophagus hannah.

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... bright of blee, As Myrtle branchlet Asia bred, Which Hamadryad deity As toy for joyance aye befed With humour ...

— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus

... nor whether they were merely hungry, or miserable from some other cause. It was curious, in the midst of their distress, to observe them thrusting their noses into the mire, in quest of something to eat. The nymph with the bodice of oaken bark (she was the hamadryad of an oak) threw a handful of acorns among them; and the two and twenty hogs scrambled and fought for the prize, as if they had tasted not so much as a noggin of ...

— Tanglewood Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... it is not so. There is the hamadryad, for instance. He is a great snake about ten to fourteen feet long, and he is the only snake that will attack you first. He is said always to do so, certainly he often does. One attacked me once when out quail-shooting. He put up his great neck and head suddenly at a distance of ...

— The Soul of a People • H. Fielding

... what thing Fortuned in Hellas. A maid, Lissom and white as the roe, Lived recess'd in a glade. Clytie, Hamadryad, She was called that I sing— Flower so fair, so frail, that to bring her a woe, Surely ...

— Helen Redeemed and Other Poems • Maurice Hewlett

... Hamadryad Nymphs, And golden-spoken Hellades at once Made answer to my pleading with one voice From cities, ...

— Life Immovable - First Part • Kostes Palamas