Sylph vs Dryad - What's the difference?
sylph | dryad |
(mythology) An invisible being of the air
The elemental being of air, usually female.
A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people.
* 1811 , (Mary Bruton), Self-Control (novel):
A mainly dark green and blue hummingbird, the male of which has a long forked tail.
As nouns the difference between sylph and dryad
is that sylph is (mythology) an invisible being of the air while dryad is (greek mythology) in greek myth, a female tree spirit.sylph
English
(wikipedia sylph)Noun
(en noun)- Her heart fluttered with expectation—her step was buoyant with hope, and she sprung into the carriage with the lightness of a sylph .