as in nymph
a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors
the ancients believed that hamadryads adopted particular trees as their permanent dwelling places
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Noun
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Instead of looking for adult mayflies, researchers were searching for aquatic immature mayflies, known as nymphs, and used nets to scoop sand from the riverbed, the study said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2025 -
Cicada nymphs and exoskeletons will litter the ground.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
15 Mar. 2025
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Elsewhere, gawp at Patty Chang greedily gobbling a melon standing in for her breast in her seminal 1998 video Melons (At a Loss) and the bloodthirsty mermaids swimming through Jen Liu’s 2023 video The Land at the Bottom of the Sea.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
31 Mar. 2025
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The walls were daubed with graffiti, including a full-breasted mermaid drawn in black marker, emerging from the waves to blow her apocalyptic trumpet.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
12 Mar. 2025
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Having regained his health, Geralt heads off with Jaskier and the dryad Milva to find Ciri, following a little skirmish with some power-mad guards.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
27 July 2023
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Merlin and Cosmo are both in their 30s, with dark curly hair and similarly rangy builds, though Merlin’s face is more delicate, as though a distant ancestor might have been part elf or dryad.—
Jennifer Kahn,
New York Times,
8 June 2023
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“Hamadryad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hamadryad. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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