Definition of "hamadryads" [hamadryads]

• Plural form of hamadryad. (noun)

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• "As a grown woman, I now realize that it might just have been a really big, hairy, naked hippie, startled out of a sylvan reverie by what no doubt appeared, through a potty haze, to be two small, hostile hamadryads."
• "Nagas hail from the Vedic/Hindu tradition; centaurs, sylphs, dryads, hamadryads, oceanids andnereids are part of Greek mythology; fairies and selkies are from Celtic and Irish mythology;anddjinn and ifrit are from the magic of old Arabia."
• "We threaded groves of bay and arbutus where the dew of the mountain mists brushed our bare knees in the gray daybreak; then up the ilex slopes where it sparked in sunrise; then through thick pine woods that brought back night again, with our mounts 'feet soundless on the needle-pad, and hamadryads pressing so thick and silent we almost hushed our breath."