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HAMADRYAD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja

Synonyms:

hamadryad; king cobra; Naja hannah; Ophiophagus hannah

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("hamadryad" is a kind of...):

cobra (venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood)

Holonyms ("hamadryad" is a member of...):

genus Ophiophagus; Ophiophagus (king cobra)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The nymph or spirit of a particular tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("hamadryad" is a kind of...):

dryad; wood nymph (a deity or nymph of the woods)

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