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(hăm′ȧ-drīˊăd)

Noun.

;

pl. E.

Hamadryads

(-ădz)

, L.

Hamadryades

(-drī′ȧ-dēz)

[L.

Hamadryas

-adis

, Gr.

Ὰμαδρυάς

;

ἄμα

together +

δρῦσ

oak, tree: cf. F.

hamadryade

. See

, and

(Class. Myth.)

A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.

(Zool.)

A large venomous East Indian snake (

Ophiophagus bungarus

), allied to the cobras.

Noun.

[Gr. together, and a tree.] A wood nymph, feigned to live and die with the tree to which it was attached.