What's the difference between daphne and dryad?

Daphne


Definition:

  • (n.) A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.
  • (n.) A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) BBC1 will also screen a three-part adaptation of PD James' Death Comes to Pemberley, the Jane Austen homage in the 200th anniversary year of Pride and Prejudice, as well as a three-part adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and Remember Me, a ghost story by Gwyneth Hughes (Five Days, The Girl).
  • (2) The number of complaints about BBC1's Daphne du Maurier adaptation totalled 1,384 on Thursday morning, up from 798 the day before.
  • (3) For what it’s worth, I thought of Sadness and Joy as like Velma and Daphne from Scooby Doo , of equal importance in the long run.
  • (4) But only together | Daphne Wysham Read more “We believe we can play an important role in developing the Arctic’s energy resources.
  • (5) He is survived by his second wife, Marilyn (nee Gasson), whom he married in 1979; by their children, Thomas, Elizabeth, Gabriel and Joshua; and by his daughter, Imogen, from his first marriage, to Daphne Brewer, which ended in divorce.
  • (6) He left Daphne for Toronto, before then going to Egypt and finally Somalia.
  • (7) A new (-)-4-oxo-2,6-bis-(3',4'-methylenedioxy phenyl)-3, 7-dioxabicyclo[3, 3, 0] octane lignan, genkdaphin was isolated from the leaves of Daphne genkwa Sieb.
  • (8) He grew up in Daphne, a community of 20,000 outside Mobile, the son of a Christian mother and a Syrian-born Muslim father.
  • (9) He returned to the subject in 1993 with The Candlemass Road, a short novel which at times seems like one of Daphne Du Maurier's historical romances, except that the love interest stops dead, perhaps realistically so.
  • (10) Hb Daphne showed low cooperativity with high oxygen affinity.
  • (11) A Derbyshire farmer, Daphne Tilley, told the Guardian that her family business was left with £9,000 of unpaid bills after a restaurant she supplied with meat run by the celebrity chef Tom Aikens went bust.
  • (12) Deputy senior district judge Daphne Wickham adjourned the case because she did not have "sufficient" powers to pass sentence.
  • (13) The second instalment of the TV adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's classic novel, starring Downton Abbey actor Jessica Brown Findlay, was watched by 4.5 million viewers, a 19.4% share of the audience, between 9pm and 10pm on Tuesday.
  • (14) Two mutant Hbs (Hb Nymphéas [Cys-93 beta----Ser] and Hb Daphne [Cys-93 beta----Ser, His-143 beta----Arg]) were constructed by site-directed mutagenesis using synthetic oligonucleotides.
  • (15) The audience for the second episode of the adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel fell by 1.6 million following hundreds of viewer complaints over mumbling in the first episode.
  • (16) The Sisterhood began eleven years ago under the leadership of Ms. Daphne Busby.
  • (17) Daphne Cotton Twickenham, Middlesex • You are right to exonerate Twitter from blame for the summer riots.
  • (18) "He was only pretending to be a friend," Daphne tells herself, "something no interviewer, probably, had ever been."
  • (19) In an industry full of pomp he could cut through it with tailor's scissors, and he was, as his friend Daphne Guinness put it, "generous without noise".
  • (20) Daphne Selfe: 'I have my physical limitations – I can't wear high heels now, for instance.

Dryad


Definition:

  • (n.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.

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