Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

hamadryad

/hæməˈdɹaɪæd/ noun

Forms hamadryads hamadryades

noun (Greek mythology) A wood-nymph who was physically a part of her tree; she would die if her tree were felled.
noun A king cobra.
noun A baboon of species Papio hamadryas, venerated by the ancient Egyptians.
noun Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Hamadryas and Tellervo.

Synonyms

From Latin Hamadryas, from Ancient Greek Ἁμαδρυάς (Hamadruás), from ἅμα (háma, “together”) + δρῦς (drûs, “tree”).

noun A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.
noun A large venomous East Indian snake (Orhiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras.

Etymology [L. Hamadryas, -adis, Gr. hamadryade. See Same, and Tree.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “hamadryad”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details