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Definition: Dryas |
DryasNoun1. Mountain avens. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Dryas \Dry"as\, noun; plural Dryades. [Latin expression See Dryad.]. (Websters 1913) |
"Dryas" is a common misspelling or typo for: Dries, Dryad, Dryads. |
Synonym: DryasSynonym: genus Dryas (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
When Lycurgus heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, imprisoned all the followers of Dionysus, the Maenads. Dionysus fled, taking refuge with Thetis. Dionysus then sent a drought and the people revolted. Dionysus made King Lycurgus insane, and he sliced his own son, Dryas, into pieces with an axe, thinking he was a patch of ivy, a plant holy to Dionysus. An oracle then claimed that the land would stay dry and barren as long as Lycurgus was alive. His people had him drawn and quartered. With Lycurgus dead, Dionysus lifted the curse.
In Botany, Dryas is a plant genus, family rosaceae
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Crosswords: Dryas |
| English words defined with "Dryas": Dryades. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Dryas": Danaides. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Dryas": Dryad. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dryas" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (mountain avens). |
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| "Dryas" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dryas" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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Expressions using "Dryas": Dryas octopetala ♦ genus Dryas. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dryas younger | 4 |
dryas phase three | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Dryas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | Arginţicã. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Dryas": dryasdust, dryasdusts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: drays, yards. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: days, dray, drys, rads, rays, ryas, sard, yard. | |
-2 letters: ads, ars, ays, day, dry, rad, ras, ray, rya, sad, say, yar. | |
-3 letters: ad, ar, as, ay, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: derays, dryads, hydras, sudary, yairds. | |
+2 letters: bayards, boyards, byroads, daresay, darkeys, dasyure, daystar, defrays, dryades, dysuria, hydrase, myriads, redbays, satyrid, skyward, sprayed, strayed. | |
+3 letters: absurdly, advisory, bastardy, beeyards, custardy, dasyures, daymares, dayrooms, daystars, dayworks, decayers, delayers, dialyser, disarray, doorways, dorsally, drayages, drywalls, dysurias, estrayed, faradays, halyards, hayrides, haywards, hydrants, hydrases, hydrates, jaybirds, keycards, lanyards, midyears, misandry, mustardy, pyralids, pyramids, reynards, rhapsody, roadways, sacredly, saddlery, sardonyx, satyrids, shipyard, skywards, solidary, sudatory, tanyards, tardyons, workdays, yardages, yardarms, yearends. | |
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