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Drymaia

Drymaia (Δρυμαία), also spelled Drymaea and known in ancient sources as Drymos, was an ancient Phocian city on the foothills of Mount Kallidromos in central Greece.

Oct 20, 2026

Drymaria arenarioides

Drymaria arenarioides (alfombrilla, lightning weed, sandwort drymary), a Caryophyllaceae perennial herb native to Mexico; federal noxious weed, saponins toxic to cattle, sheep, and goats.

Dryobates (Boie, 1826), meaning tree walker, is a woodpecker genus of Picidae holding the lesser spotted, downy, Nuttall's, and ladder-backed woodpeckers after the 2025 split that moved six species to Leuconotopicus and fourteen to Veniliornis.

Dryocampa rubicunda

Dryocampa rubicunda, the rosy maple moth (green-striped mapleworm as larva), a small pink-and-yellow nocturnal Saturniidae moth of eastern North America, sole species of Dryocampa, whose caterpillars feed on maple and oak and occasionally defoliate trees.

Dryocopus

Dryocopus (Boie, 1826) is a genus of large, powerful excavating woodpeckers in Picidae, type species the Black Woodpecker D. martius; includes pileatus, lineatus, javensis, hodgei, schulzii; Mulleripicus merged in, Helmeted Woodpecker moved to Celeus.

Dryocosmus kuriphilus

Dryocosmus kuriphilus (kuri-tamabachi), the Asian chestnut gall wasp, is a thelytokous cynipid gall wasp native to China and the worst chestnut pest worldwide, causing up to 80% yield loss and controlled mainly by Torymus sinensis.

Dryophthoridae

Dryophthoridae, validly Dryophthorinae, palm weevils: pantropical Curculionidae subfamily with over 1,200 species in 153 genera, pests of palms, bananas, and stored grain, sister to Platypodinae.

Dryopidae

Dryopidae, the long-toed water beetles (synonym Parnidae), is a family of about 300 small beetle species in 33 genera whose aquatic adults cling with long claws and breathe via a plastron while larvae are terrestrial.

Dryopteridaceae

Dryopteraceae, the wood fern family, is one of the largest terrestrial and epiphytic fern families, typified by Dryopteris, containing over 2,100 species and x=41 spores.

Dryopteris

Dryopteris (wood ferns, buckler ferns), genus Adanson 1763 in Dryopteridaceae, about 400 species, x=41, scaly rhizomes and reniform indusia; includes male fern D. filix-mas and absorbed genera Acrophorus, Diacalpe, Dryopsis, Nothoperanema, Peranema.

Dryopteris filix-mas

Dryopteris filix-mas, the male fern, a circumboreal deciduous wood fern (Dryopteridaceae) with 2-pinnate fronds to 1.2 m; allotetraploid from D. caucasica and D. oreades; RHS Award of Garden Merit; NatureServe G5.

Dryopteris marginalis

Dryopteris marginalis, marginal wood fern or marginal shield fern, is an evergreen Dryopteridaceae fern native from Greenland and Canada to the USA, growing in rocky, boulderfield temperate forests with sori along pinna margins.

Drypoint

Drypoint is an intaglio printmaking technique in which a sharp needle scratches lines directly into a metal plate, producing lines with a fuzzy, velvety edge.

Drysdale River National Park

Drysdale River National Park: Western Australia's most northerly and Kimberley's largest national park, 448,264 ha, gazetted 1974; no vehicle access, no infrastructure, permits required, rich flora, and fauna.

Sep 19, 2026

Dryton

Dryton (Greek Δρύτων), son of Pamphilos, was a Greek cavalry officer and moneylender at Pathyris in Upper Egypt in the second century BC, known through his family archive.

Sep 19, 2026

Dryton and Apollonia archive

The Dryton and Apollonia archive is a bilingual Greek–Demotic family archive from Pathyris (Gebelein) in Upper Egypt, kept by a Cretan cavalry officer and his wife in the 2nd century BC.

Drywall

Drywall, also known as Sheetrock or plasterboard, is a fire-resistant panel of gypsum faced with paper, used for interior walls and ceilings; modern wallboard was invented in 1916 by United States Gypsum.

DS (satellite bus)

The DS (Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik) was a family of small standardized Soviet satellite buses developed from 1961 by OKB-586 in Dnepropetrovsk for scientific and military missions flown largely under the Kosmos and Interkosmos programs.

DS Automobiles

DS Automobiles is a French premium car marque founded in Paris in 2014, positioned above Citroën within PSA and now Stellantis, selling the DS 3, N°4, N°7, and N°8 in 40 countries.

DS No. 4

The DS No. 4, also styled DS N°4, is a compact premium hatchback from DS Automobiles, Stellantis's premium marque, sold as the DS 4 until the 2025 facelift.

DS No. 8

The DS No. 8 (DS N°8) is a battery-electric SUV coupé and flagship of DS Automobiles, unveiled in December 2024 with a WLTP range of up to 466 miles.

DS Tuc A

DS Tuc A (HD 222259 A) is a 45-Myr-old G6V star 44 parsecs away, primary of the binary DS Tuc in the Tucana-Horologium association, hosting the young transiting Neptune-like planet DS Tuc A b in an aligned 8.1-day orbit.

DS-1000

DS-1000 is a code generation benchmark of 1,000 data-science problems spanning seven Python libraries, built from real Stack Overflow questions and scored by executing generated code against test cases.

DS-2000

DS-2000 is a geostationary satellite bus developed by Mitsubishi Electric as Japan's first standard satellite platform, derived from JAXA satellite buses and flown on missions like Himawari 8 and Michibiki since 2006.

DS-U2

DS-U2 (ДС-У2) is a non-orienting, solar-powered Soviet small satellite bus developed in the mid-1960s at OKB-586 in Dnepropetrovsk, first flown as Kosmos 93 in 1965.

DS009

DS009, also known as SLTE-1009, is a monoclonal antibody targeting PACAP for migraine prevention, discovered by Dartsbio Pharmaceuticals in Zhongshan, China, and licensed to Slate Medicines in February 2026.

DS2 (album)

DS2 (Dirty Sprite 2) is Future's third studio album, released July 17, 2015 on Epic/Freebandz. Sequel to the 2011 mixtape Dirty Sprite; debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 147,000 units, his first chart-topper, later triple platinum.

DSA and the Democratic Party

DSA and the Democratic Party describes how the Democratic Socialists of America runs candidates in Democratic primaries without formal affiliation, pursuing an eventual independent party.