(n.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.
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Hamadryad
Definition:
(n.) A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.
(n.) A large venomous East Indian snake (Orhiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras.
Example Sentences:
(1) A radioimmunological method is described for simultaneous estimation of hestagenes, estrogenes, androgenes and their precursors in small samples of blood plasma obtained from peripheric blood of hamadryads (Papio hamadryas) and macaques (Macaca rhesus).
(2) All three cases of tumours of the biliary tract in baboons hamadryad were classified as adenocarcinomas.
(3) In 6 baboon hamadryads, in 4 Stum-tailed macaques and in one macaco rhesus they were diagnosed as the so-called polypous gastritis.
(4) In a young baboon hamadryad adenomatous hyperplasia was observed to be developed against the background of hepatocirrhosis.