dryad


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a deity or nymph of the woods

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This is a charming story with no in-depth explanations of topics, be it foster care, ecology, or dryads. It does not matter, however, because the reader gets caught up in the story and really will want to know what happens next.
[10] Isard, M., Budiu, M., Yu, Y., Birrell, A., Fetterly, D.: Dryad: distributed data-parallel programs from sequential building blocks.
Raw data and R syntax enabling reproduction of results are available from the Dryad Digital Repository (http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.v3456).
"It costs a lot of money to adhere to the recommendations [of the BMP4]," Ian Millen, Chief Operating Officer at Dryad Maritime, an international monitoring organisation, told Gulf News by phone from London.
"The Long Road," the second volume of "The Compendium of Raath," by e-author Michael Mood is a fast-moving sequel to Book 1: "The Chosen." It begins with a dramatic battle/escape scene where the healing skills of the pregnant animal speaker, Wren, under the guidance of Heather, are focused upon healing Otom, who continues to carry the branch of the Dryad Tree for Wren to draw upon later.
Dryad Maritime, a maritime security consultancy, agrees that Southeast Asia remains the area with the highest number of maritime crime incidents.
In the region's oakeries such polypores species are popular to a lesser degree: tinder fungus Fomes fomentarius (L.) Fr., dryad's club saddle Polyporus squamosus (Huds.) Fr.
Southwick House now forms part of the O$cers Mess at Southwick Park, the Defence School of Policing and Guarding previously HMS Dryad at the time of the D-Day landings.
Other vocal highlights for me came from the trio of lovely nymphs, Naiad (Virginia Hatfield), Dryad (Aidan Ferguson) and Echo (Eve-Lyn de la Haye).
Thus a tree-fairy (or a dryad) is, or was a minor spirit in the process of creation who aided [...] in the making effective of the divine Tree-idea or some part of it, or of even of some one particular example: some tree.