dryad
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Brilliantly rendered by Rebecca Benson, she shins up trees like a dryad, only to be told by her would-be boyfriend, "you smell like an infected bandage".
From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2013
If you stray off the path a jean-clad dryad yells you back on the right course.
From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2012
“It’s because no dryad would give her tree for wood. It would be like giving your own skin.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
The dryad who would have perished with it told him to ask anything he desired and she would give it.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Could I put a face in my tree, like a dryad from Greek mythology?
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing dryad
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 7
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Circe
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