hamadryad in a sentence

1. Some of the individual dryads or hamadryads are:

2. The Hamadryads were even more closely associated with trees, forming an integral part of them.

3. The classical Hamadryads were evidently in like manner priestesses of "Hamed-dero,"--"the desired seed"--i.e., "the desire of all nations."

4. These were the hamadryads who were an integral part of their trees, such that if the tree died, the hamadryad associated with it died as well.

5. A specific type of dryad known as a hamadryad actually lives inside the tree, according to legend, and if the tree dies, the hamadryad dies with it.

6. For this reason, the Greeks believed that it was necessary to ask permission from the gods before felling a tree, to confirm that they would not be killing a hamadryad by mistake.