hamadryad

[ ham-uh-drahy-uh d, -ad ]

/ ˌhæm əˈdraɪ əd, -æd /

Classical Mythology. a dryad who is the spirit of a particular tree.

king cobra.

Origin of hamadryad

< Latin, stem of Hamādryas wood nymph < Greek, equivalent to hama together with (cognate with same) + dryás dryad

Were you to tell me that you saw a hamadryad coming out of yon beech-tree, I should not contradict you because I could not see it.

Barbara Lynn |Emily J. Jenkinson
Science (or rather half-way science) scoffs at reminiscence of dryad and hamadryad, and of trees speaking.

Complete Prose Works |Walt Whitman
It is a place in which a poet might look for a glimpse of a Hamadryad.

Gryll Grange |Thomas Love Peacock
Why, you'll look like a hamadryad, all in these wood browns!

A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. |Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

Hamadryad, a wood-nymph identified with a particular tree that was born with it and that died with it.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia |Edited by Rev. James Wood

hamadryad

/ (ˌhæməˈdraɪəd, -æd) /

classical myth one of a class of nymphs, each of which inhabits a tree and dies with it

another name for king cobra

C14: from Latin Hamādryas, from Greek Hamadruas, from hama together with + drus tree; see dryad