Definitions for dryas
dryas

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1. Dryas, genus Dryasnoun

   mountain avens

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1. Dryasnoun

   Either of two climatic stages of the late glacial period in Northern Europe in which plants of the genus Dryas were abundant

2. dryasnoun

   Any of several plants of the genus Dryas; the mountain avens

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1. dryas

   Dryas is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae, commonly known as "mountain avens." They are typically characterized by their small size, distinct yellow or white flowers, and adaptation to cold environments such as the Arctic and Alpine regions. Dryas is also associated with a series of extreme cold events that occurred 18,000 to 12,000 years ago during the last Ice Age, known as the "Younger Dryas."

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1. Dryasnoun

   a dryad

2. Etymology: [L. See Dryad.]

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1. Dryas

   Dryas is the name of ten characters in Greek mythology. 1. Dryas was the son of King Lycurgus, king of the Edoni in Thrace. He was killed when Lycurgus went insane and mistook him for a mature trunk of ivy, a plant holy to the god Dionysus, whose cult Lycurgus was attempting to extirpate. 2. Dryas, father of the aforementioned Lycurgus, and thus grandfather of Dryas #1. 3. Dryas, a leader of the Lapiths against the Centaurs, and a participant of the battle that began at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia, where he killed the Centaur Rhoetus, who had killed his fellow Lapiths Corythus and Euagrus just before that. In Iliad 1, Nestor numbers Dryas among an earlier generation of heroes of his youth, "the strongest men that Earth has bred, the strongest men against the strongest enemies, a savage mountain-dwelling tribe [i. e. the Centaurs] whom they utterly destroyed", and call him "shepherd of the people". No trace of such an oral tradition, which Homer's listeners would have recognized in Nestor's allusion, survived in literary epic. 4. Dryas, the son of Ares or of Iapetus. He was involved in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. His brother, Tereus, having heard the prophecy that his son was to be killed by a relative and falsely believing that it was Dryas whom the oracle indicated, murdered him.

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1. Dryas

   the father of Lycurgus, a Thracian king, and slain by him, who, in a fit of frenzy against the Bacchus worshippers, mistook him for a vine and cut him down. See Lycurgus.

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Anagrams for dryas »

1. drays

2. yards

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dryas in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dryas in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dryas
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dryas
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dryas
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=dryas
6. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Dryas