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Hamʹadryads

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Nymphs of trees supposed to live in forest-trees, and die when the tree dies. (Greek, hama, together with drus, a forest-tree.)

⁂ The nymphs of fruit-trees were called “Mēlidēs” or “Hamamēlids.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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