Dryad, Washington is a small logging town named by railway official William C. Albee for the mythical wood nymph.
Three hundred years later, Japan is a dystopia covered by the Forest, a huge expanse of sapient trees, and ruled by the tree-like Zruids, which inhabit the planet and control the water supply of both trees and humans.
Tree nymph is another term for a Dryad in Ancient Greek mythology.
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Caïssa, a mythical Thracian dryad portrayed as the goddess of chess
Dryas octopetala (common names include mountain avens, white dryas, and white dryad) is an Arctic–alpine flowering plant in the family Rosaceae.
Rankin was promoted lieutenant commander in August 1937 and sent to Britain on exchange duty, he was posted to HMS Gleaner, a minesweeper and following courses at HMS Dryad, he was posted to the repair ship HMS Resource as first lieutenant.
A number of torpedo gunboats, such as the Alarm class and the Dryad class, were built for the Royal Navy during the 1880s and the 1890s; similar vessels were also constructed or otherwise acquired by a number of European nations and Japan.
Robert Charles Wilson: "The Dryad's Wedding" (First published in Star Colonies, 2000)