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Hamadryad
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So is Odysseus. Does it mean:
| king of Ithaca, one of the heroes of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey, also shrewdest of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War |
| a gigantic hollow wooden horse; when the Trojans took it into Troy, Greek soldiers hidden within it opened the gates to the Greek army and conquered the city |
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| hamadryad (ˌhæməˈdraɪəd, -æd) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | classical myth one of a class of nymphs, each of which inhabits a tree and dies with it |
| 2. | another name for king cobra |
| [C14: from Latin Hamādryas, from Greek Hamadruas, from hama together with + drus tree; see | |
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hamadryad
late 14c., from Gk. hamadryas "wood-nymph" (pl. hamadryades), fabled to die with her tree, from hama "together" + drus (gen. dryos) "tree."
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