Dryad vs. Hamadryad

Dryadnoun

(Greek mythology) In Greek myth, a female tree spirit.

Hamadryadnoun

(Greek mythology) A wood-nymph who was physically a part of her tree; she would die if her tree were felled.

Dryadnoun

A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.

Hamadryadnoun

The king cobra.

Dryadnoun

a deity or nymph of the woods

Hamadryadnoun

A kind of baboon, Papio hamadryas, venerated by the ancient Egyptians.

Dryadnoun

(in folklore and Greek mythology) a nymph inhabiting a tree or wood.

Hamadryadnoun

(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Hamadryas and Tellervo.

Dryadnoun

a dark brown Eurasian butterfly with two prominent bluish eyespots on each forewing.

Hamadryadnoun

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

Dryad

A dryad (; Greek: Δρυάδες, sing.: Δρυάς) is a tree nymph or tree spirit in Greek mythology. Drys signifies in Greek, and dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees, but the term has come to be used for tree nymphs in general, or human-tree hybrids in fantasy.

‘oak’;

Hamadryadnoun

A large venomous East Indian snake (Ophiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras.

Hamadryadnoun

the nymph or spirit of a particular tree

Hamadryadnoun

large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja

Hamadryadnoun

a nymph who lives in a tree and dies when the tree dies.

Hamadryadnoun

another term for king cobra

Hamadryad

A hamadryad (; Greek: Ἁμαδρυάδες, Hamadryádes) is a Greek mythological being that lives in trees. It is a particular type of dryad which, in turn, is a particular type of nymph.