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Hamadryad   Listen
noun
Hamadryad  n.  (pl. E. hamadryads, L. hamadryades)  
1.
(Class. Myth.) A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.
2.
(Zool.) A large venomous East Indian snake (Ophiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras.





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"Hamadryad" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Hamadryad" :   Ophiophagus hannah, wood nymph, dryad, Naja hannah, king cobra, Ophiophagus, cobra, genus Ophiophagus


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