Hamadryads. See NYMPHS.—The name Hamadryas is given to a kind of Baboon (q.v.); and the Hamadryas or Ophiophagus elaps is the largest poisonous snake of the Old World, larger and more dangerous than any of the cobras, with which it has almost the same geographical range.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 526
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