Dryas may refer to:
Biology
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''Dryas'' (plant), a genus of plants
* ''Dryas'', a monotypic genus of butterflies containing the single species ''
Dryas iulia''
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Dryas monkey (''Cercopithecus dryas''), a little-known species of guenon found only in the Congo Basin
Geology
* Dryas, the name of several climatic periods, named for their abundant dryas flowers:
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Oldest Dryas
The Oldest Dryas is a biostratigraphic subdivision layer corresponding to a relatively abrupt climatic cooling event, or stadial, which occurred during the last glacial retreat. The time period to which the layer corresponds is poorly defined an ...
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Older Dryas
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Middle Dryas
The Older Dryas was a stadial (cold) period between the Bølling and Allerød interstadials (warmer phases), about 14,000 years Before Present, towards the end of the Pleistocene. Its date is not well defined, with estimates varying by 400 years ...
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Younger Dryas
Other uses
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Dryas (mythology), several characters in Greek mythology
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Drias, Kavala
Drias, also referred to as Dryas ( el, Δρυάς), is a village in Kavala, Greece. The village takes its name after the mythological Greek nymphs Dryads
A dryad (; el, Δρυάδες, ''sing''.: ) is a tree nymph or tree spirit in Greek myth ...
, or Dryas, a village in Greece
See also
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Dryad (disambiguation) A dryad is a form of mythological Greek nymph associated with trees.
Dryad may also refer to:
Military
* , any one of several ships of the Royal Navy
* ''Dryad''-class torpedo gunboat, in the Royal Navy
* Operation Dryad, a British Second World ...
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