(n.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.
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Dryas
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(n.) A dryad.
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(1) Chromosome counts in meiotic metaphase plates in the gonads of 67 of the probable 68 species of mimetic neotropical heliconian butterflies (Nymphalidae), representing 1524 individuals in 617 subspecies and geographically separate populations from southern Texas to northern Argentina, revealed a consistent haploid number of n = 21 in the genus Heliconius (except for the most advanced species with n = 33, 37, 56, and 60) and n = 31 in the more primitive genera (Eueides, Dryas, Dryadula, Agraulis, and Dione), with a transitional genus (Neruda) showing three species with n = 28-32, 21-22 + 5-10 "microchromosomes", and 20-22 + 1-5 "microchromosomes".
(2) One controversial paper suggests that the eradication of the monsters of the Americas caused such a sharp loss of atmospheric methane (generated in their guts) that it could have triggered the short ice age which began about 12,800 years ago, called the Younger Dryas .