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Definition of Dryas

Dryas
Dryas Dry"as, n.; pl. Dryades. [L. See Dryad.] (Class. Myth.) A dryad.

Meaning of Dryas from wikipedia

- the Younger Dryas has been confirmed in both ice cores and cave deposits. The Younger Dryas is named after the alpine–tundra wildflower Dryas octopetala...
- Look up Dryas or dryas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dryas may refer to: Dryas (plant), a genus of plants Dryas, a monotypic genus of butterflies...
- Dryas octopetala, the mountain avens, eightpetal mountain-avens, white dryas or white dryad, is an Arctic–alpine flowering plant in the family Rosaceae...
- The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) cool period (stadial) at the end of the Last Glacial Period...
- Dryas (Ancient Gr****: Δρύας, gen. Δρύαντος, from δρῦς "oak") is the name of several figures in Gr**** mythology, including: Dryas, an Egyptian prince as...
- The Dryas monkey (Chlorocebus dryas), also known as Salonga monkey, ekele, or inoko, is a little-known species of Old World monkey found only in the Congo...
- erect and white with a yellow centre (Dryas integrifolia, Dryas octopetala) or pendulous and all-yellow (Dryas drummondii), and held con****uously above...
- was the king of the Edoni in Thrace, son of Dryas, the "oak", and father of a son whose name was also Dryas. Lycurgus banned the cult of Dionysus. When...
- mythology, Dryas (Ancient Gr****: Δρύας, gen. Δρύαντος, from δρῦς "oak") was a lord from Calydon who was also one of the famous Calydonian hunters. Dryas was...
- the Older Dryas and the Younger Dryas (c. 12,900–11,650 BP). In northern Scotland, the glaciers were thicker and deeper during the Older Dryas than the...