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dryo-, dry- (Greek: oak tree; by extension, "tree").


dryad:
A forest nymph.
Dryophyllum, dryophyllum:
A genus of widely distributed, Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary trees supposed to be ancestors of modern oaks and beeches.
Dryope:
From a Greek myth, a playmate of the wood nymphs, beloved by Apollo. She was a daughter of king Dryops, eponymous ancestor of the Dryopes, or Dryopians, a Greek tribe originally of Thessaly.
Dryophyllum, dryophyllum:
A genus of widely distributed, Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary trees supposed to be ancestors of modern oaks and beeches.
dryotomos:
Woodcutter.
druid:
An ancient Celtic priest or soothsayer. Compounded of daru-, dru, "oak", and wid-, "know"; hence literally meaning "they who know the oak"; so called with reference to their practices with mistletoe.
phellodrys:
An evergreen oak.