Definitions for Hylas

Hylas hy·la

Spelling: [hahy-luh]
IPA: /ˈhaɪ lə/

Hylas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in Hylas (ahlsy).

Definitions for Hylas

noun

  1. a tree frog of the genus Hyla.

Origin of Hylas

New Latin (1768), the genus name; Latin Hyla, vocative of Hylās Hylas, a companion of Hercules, alluding to the classical legend of his death in a fountain and the repeated cries made by thos

Examples for Hylas

hyla, serf and thrall to him, has had never a word of record until now.

Sometimes as in hyla and Alytes there is a fronto-parietal fontanelle.

It was at the order of Pierce that hyla had been fishing that evening.

hyla was a labourer in the mint, and under the orders of Lewin the Jew.

The circle was broken up, and only Cerdic and Harl sat there waiting hyla's return.

"Pierce said that I might have some fish to take home," hyla told her humbly.

hyla said nothing for a minute, but remained still and motionless.

Page 91, note 8, line 15, for Styla read hyla in both instances.

It was thus that the serfs lived, and hyla skirted the fold till he came to his own house.

The hyla's tremulous cry was the only musical sound to be heard.

Word Value for Hylas
Scrable

10

Words with friends

9

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