Dryas

Dryas means:

• several figures from Greek mythology:
  • Dryas (Lapithe)
  • Dryas (son of Ares) , brother of Tereus , participant in the hunt for the Calydonian boar
  • Dryas (father of Lycurgus)
  • Dryas (son of Lycurgus)
  • Dryas (riders)
• a monotypical genus of butterflies, see Dryas iulia
• a genus of alpine wildflowers, in German Silberwurzen
• three cold periods named after this at the end of the Pleistocene , see Oldest Dryas , Older Dryas and Younger Dryas
• a book publisher in Frankfurt am Main, see Dryas Verlag

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.