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Peridexion

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perinoun(Iranian mythology) A sprite or supernatural being.
ladonnoun(Greek mythology) A serpent-like dragon that twined around the tree in the Garden of the Hesperides and guarded the golden apples.
daphnenounA female given name from Ancient Greek.
heaven treenounA mythical tree or vine which figures in some primitive beliefs as affording the means of ascent from underground regions to the surface, or from the surface to the sky. Forms of this myth are found in Malacca, Borneo, Celebes, New Zealand, and Polynesia.
dryadnoun(Greek mythology) A female tree spirit.
phoenixnoun(mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
caladriusnoun(mythology) A mythical bird that had healing powers.
ephydriadnoun(rare) A dryad, a water nymph.
apusnoun(astronomy) A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a bird of paradise.
fusangnouna legendary country in old Chinese books, assumed to be Japan; in old European maps of North America may sometimes be found north of California
kodamanoun(Japanese mythology) A type of Japanese tree spirit.
dahunoun(mythology) A legendary goat-like animal reputed to live in the mountains of France, Switzerland, and Italy.
dryadenounObsolete form of dryad. [(Greek mythology) A female tree spirit.]
world treenounIn various mythologies, an enormous tree that connects or forms an axis between different realms or worlds and serves as a symbol of the universe's structure and interconnectedness.
dendrolatrynounThe worship of trees.
hamadryadnoun(Greek mythology) A wood-nymph who was physically a part of her tree; she would die if her tree were felled.
vidofnirnoun(Norse mythology) A mythological bird (variously, a falcon or a rooster) that inhabits the top of Mímameiðr, a tree identified with Yggdrasil; sometimes positioned on the brow of another cosmic bird.
hesperidesnoun(Greek mythology) A group of nymphs who tend a blissful garden filled with trees that grew golden apples in a far western corner of the world, located in Libya or the Atlas Mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus; they are said to be the daughters of Hesperus.
airavatanoun(Hinduism) Name of the mythological white elephant, mount of Indra.
money treenounAn imaginary tree from which money can be plucked. See money doesn't grow on trees.

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