Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Dryads

Nymphs of the trees. (Greek, drus, any forest tree.) They were supposed to live in the trees and die when the trees died. Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus (2 syl.) the poet, was a dryad.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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