Usually means: Nymph; inhabits and personifies tree.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word hamadryad:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. hamadryad: Merriam-Webster
  2. Hamadryad, hamadryad: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hamadryad: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hamadryad: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hamadryad: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hamadryad, hamadryad: Wordnik
  7. hamadryad: Wiktionary
  8. hamadryad: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hamadryad: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hamadryad: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. hamadryad: Dictionary.com
  12. hamadryad: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Hamadryad (disambiguation), Hamadryad: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Hamadryad: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. hamadryad: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. hamadryad: Rhymezone
  17. Hamadryad: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. hamadryad: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. hamadryad: FreeDictionary.org
  20. hamadryad: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. hamadryad: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia Mythica (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hamadryad: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hamadryad: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hamadryad: A Word A Day

(Note: See hamadryades as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hamadryad)

noun:  (Greek mythology) A wood-nymph who was physically a part of her tree; she would die if her tree were felled.
noun:  A king cobra.
noun:  A baboon of species Papio hamadryas, venerated by the ancient Egyptians.
noun:  Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Hamadryas and Tellervo.

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