Dryad (disambiguation)

A dryad is a form of mythological Greek nymph associated with trees.

Dryad may also refer to:

Military

• HMS Dryad, any one of several ships of the Royal Navy
• Dryad-class torpedo gunboat, in the Royal Navy
• Operation Dryad, a British Second World War commando raid
• DRYAD, a cryptographic system used by the United States military
• Dryade-class frigate, class of ship in the French Navy
• French frigate Dryade (1783), Hébé-class ship of the French Navy

Entertainment

• Dryad (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Dryad (DC Comics), planet in DC Comics, home world for Blok
• Dryad (Dungeons & Dragons), game character
• Dryad, a character in the Quest for Glory game series

Music

• Dryad, role in the opera Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss
• Dryad, role in the opera Scylla et Glaucus by Jean-Marie Leclair
• Dryads, composition for voice and orchestra by John Bevan Baker
• Dryads and Pan from Myths by Karol Szymanowski

Literature

• Dryad, collection of stories by Ethel Mannin
• Dryades, poem by William Diaper

Places

• Dryad, Washington, an unincorporated town
• Dryad Lake, a lake in Montana
• Dryades Street, street and district in Central City, New Orleans
• Dryad Point, headland on North-East corner of Campbell Island in British Columbia

Other

• Dryad (repository), a nonprofit organization and international repository of scientific and medical data
• Dryad (programming), a Microsoft programming infrastructure
• SS Savoia, later renamed Dryad, a refrigerated cargo ship
• Dryad Press, a book publisher
• Dryad, painting by Evelyn De Morgan
• Dryade, merchant ship built by William Scott Shipbuilders
• Dryad (Minois dryas), a species of butterfly
• Dryad (HBC vessel), operated by the HBC from 1825 to 1836, see Hudson's Bay Company vessels
• Dryades, a genus of flowering plants native to Brazil

See also

• The Dryad (disambiguation)
• Dryas (disambiguation)
• Dryad's saddle (Polyporus squamosus), an edible basidiomycete mushroom