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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (Drúas), derived from ???? (drûs, “tree, oak”). The second definition comes from the large quantity of pollen from the plant that is found in ice cores dating from these periods.

Noun

dryas (plural dryases)

1. Any of several plants of the genus Dryas; the mountain avens.
2. One of two periods of cold and increased glaciation thousands of years before the present (Younger Dryas and Older Dryas).

See also

• dryas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Older Dryas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Younger Dryas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dryas (Rosaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Drays, Dyars, Radys, drays, yards

English

Etymology

From Old French driade (“wood nymph”), from Latin Dryas, Dryadis, from Ancient Greek ????? (Druás, “dryad”), from ???? (drûs, “oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew(o)- (“tree, wood”); cf. Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?a??d/, /?d?a?æd/

Noun

dryad (plural dryads)

1. (Greek mythology) A female tree spirit.

   Coordinate term: Meliai

   Hyponyms: Daphne, hamadryad

Translations

Further reading

• dryad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dardy