Dryads, nymphs of forest trees, which were conceived of as born with the tree they were attached to and dying along with it; they had their abode in wooded mountains away from men; held their revels among themselves, but broke them off at the approach of a human footstep.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Drusus, Nero Claudius * Dryas