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Dryad logo #10101) Arethusa 2) Companion for Pan 3) Eurydice 4) Eurydice was one 5) Forest nymph 6) Forest nymph of mythology 7) Nymph 8) Nymph of the woods 9) Sylvan deity 10) Tree in mythology 11) Tree nymph 12) Tree spirit 13) Wood nymph 14) Wood nymph of myth 15) Woodland nymph 16) Woods nymph
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Dryad logo #10101) Fairy 2) Hamadryad 3) Napea 4) Nymph
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DRYAD logo #21000 The DRYAD Numeral Cipher/Authentication System (KTC 1400 D) is a simple, paper cryptographic system employed by the U.S. military for authentication and for encryption of short, numerical messages. Each unit with a radio is given a set of matching DRYAD code sheets. A single sheet is valid for a limited time (e.g. 6 hours), called a cryptoperiod. ...
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Dryad logo #21000 A dryad (d; Δρυάδες, sing.: Δρυάς) is a tree nymph, or female tree spirit, in Greek mythology. In Greek drys signifies `oak.` Thus, dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees, though the term has come to be used for all tree nymphs in general. `Such deities are very much overshadowed by the divine figures defined through poetry......
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Dryad logo #21000[programming] Dryad was a research project at Microsoft Research for a general purpose runtime for execution of data parallel applications. Microsoft made several preview releases of this technology available as add-ons to Windows HPC Server 2008 R2. However, in October 2011, Microsoft discontinued active development on Dryad, shifting focu...
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Dryad logo #21000[repository] Dryad is an international disciplinary repository of data underlying scientific and medical publications. Dryad is a curated general-purpose repository that makes data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. The scientific, educational, and charitable mission of Dryad is to promote the availability of data underlying findin...
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Dryad logo #21002• (n.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.
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Dryad logo #21003(from the article `nymph`) ...`mountain`) were nymphs of mountains and grottoes; the Napaeae (nape, `dell`) and the Alseids (alsos, `grove`) were nymphs of glens and groves; ...
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dryad logo #20688In Greek mythology, a forest nymph or tree spirit, especially of the oak. Each tree had a hamadryad who lived and died with it, from the Greek hama meaning `together`. ...
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Dryad logo #20972Dry'ad noun [ Latin dryas , plural dryades , Greek ..., plural ..., from ... oak, tree. See Tree .] (Class. Myth.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.
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Dryad logo #21217The Dryad (Minois dryas) is a butterfly of the family Satyridae found in temperate Europe and across Asia to Japan.
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dryad logo #20400[n] - a deity or nymph of the woods
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dryad logo #21009dryad 1. A divinity presiding over forests and trees; a wood nymph. 2. In Greek mythology, a spiritual being believed to live in trees and forests.
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dryad logo #20974wood nymph noun a deity or nymph of the woods
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dryad logo #21221In Greek mythology, a forest nymph or tree spirit, especially of the oak. Each tree had a hamadryad who lived and died with it, from the Greek hama meaning `together`
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dryad logo #21199a deity or nymph of the woods. Cf. hamadryad.
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