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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἐφυδριάς (ephudriás), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ephydriad (plural ephydriads)
- (rare) A dryad, a water nymph.
1832, Leigh Hunt, The Ephydriads:'Tis there the Ephydriads haunt;—there, where a gap / Betwixt a heap of tree-tops, hollow and dun, / Shews where the waters run, / And whence the fountain's tongue begins to lap.
1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 107:in the golden dusty summer tramped down into the verdant valley, even then a haunt of every leafy spirit and the blue-eyed ephydriads, now Nature's slimy wound with spikes of blackened bone […].