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In old Greek stories, a dryad is a female spirit who lives in a tree. She belongs to that tree; if someone cuts the tree down, she is hurt or she dies with it. At first the name was tied to oak trees, because the Greek word inside dryad means 'oak.' Later people used dryad more loosely for a tree-nymph of any wood. You meet the word in myths, poems, and fantasy books, not in daily talk. Though actually, English dryad is not related to the everyday word dry (not wet) — they only look a little alike. A dryad is a wood spirit, not a 'dry' spirit.
樹精、樹仙女（希臘神話裡住在樹上的女精靈）
組成From Old French driade ('wood nymph'), from Latin Dryas, Dryadis, from Ancient Greek Dryas (Δρυάς), from drûs (δρῦς, 'oak'), from a very old root meaning tree or wood. Not from English dry.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dryadnoun/ˈdɹaɪəd/
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyA female tree spirit; a woodnymph or tree nymph.
- No Dryads sought to avert the fate of their kindred trees - no Nereides sported on the waves.
- There it had stood for years, close beside a mighty oak, under which sat often the kindly old priest, who told stories to the listening children. The young chestnut tree listened with them: the Dryad inside it, who was still a child, could remember the time when the tree was so small that it only reached a little higher than the ferns and long blades of grass.
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Any of the dryas plants, especially the plant mountain avens.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。