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  2. Dryad - Wikipedia

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    Dryads, like all nymphs, were supernaturally long-lived and, like many, were tied to their homes, but some were a step beyond most nymphs. These were the hamadryads , who were an integral part of their trees, such that if the tree died, the hamadryad associated with it also died.

  3. Epimeliad - Wikipedia

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    The homonymic names for an epimelias (Ἐπιμηλιάς) relates them to both fruit trees and flock animals giving them their dual role. Their hair is white, much like apple blossoms or undyed wool. Like other dryads, they can shape-shift from trees to humans. They are also known to be the guardians of the tree that the Golden Fleece was kept ...

  4. Category:Dryads - Wikipedia

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  5. Naiad - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, the naiads (/ ˈ n aɪ æ d z, ˈ n eɪ æ d z,-ə d z /; Ancient Greek: ναϊάδες, romanized: naïádes), sometimes also hydriads, [1] are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water.

  6. Sound recording and reproduction - Wikipedia

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    Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording .

  7. Younger Dryas impact hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) cool period at the end of the Last Glacial Period, around 12,900 years ago was the result of some kind of cosmic event with specific details varying between publications. [1]:

  8. Parthenogenesis in amphibians - Wikipedia

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    Kleptogenesis is a sexually parasitic form of reproduction in unisexual organisms, that is often associated with species that are also capable of gynogenetic reproduction. [8] In this reproductive mode unisexual females mate with sympatric males of related species, and genetic material in the paternal line recombines with the maternal DNA and ...

  9. Eel life history - Wikipedia

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    Distribution and size of leptocephali larvae of the American eel, Anguilla rostrata Eels are any of several long, thin, bony fishes of the order Anguilliformes.They have a catadromous life cycle, that is: at different stages of development migrating between inland waterways and the deep ocean.