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Dryas

noun
(pl. dryades)
1.
Mountain avens.  Synonym: genus Dryas.



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"Dryas" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dionysus, that he precipitated himself into the sea, where he was received into the arms of the ocean-nymph, Thetis. But the impious king bitterly expiated his sacrilegious conduct. He was punished with the loss of his reason, and, during one of his mad paroxysms, killed his own son Dryas, whom he mistook ...
— Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome • E.M. Berens

... one thing was left in them. The poor little gophers were forced out of their holes by the water, to be killed by the hail, and hundreds of them are lying around dead. I wondered and wondered why Dryas did not come to our assistance, but he told us afterward that when the storm first came he went to the stable to fasten the horses up snug, and was then afraid to come away, first because of the ...
— Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 • Frances M.A. Roe



Words linked to "Dryas" :   rose family, mountain avens, rosid dicot genus, Rosaceae, family Rosaceae



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