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Hamadryad

noun
(pl. E. hamadryads, L. hamadryades)
1.
The nymph or spirit of a particular tree.
2.
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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"Hamadryad" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


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


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