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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɛˈfɪdɹɪad/

名詞

ephydriad (複数形 ephydriads)

1. (まれに) 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 2010, p. 107:

     in the golden dusty summer [we] 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 […].