Definitions for Hydra

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Hydra hy·dra

Spelling: [hahy-druh]

IPA: /ˈhaɪ drə/

Hydra is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in Hydra (adhry).

Definitions for Hydra

noun

1. (often initial capital letter) Classical Mythology. a water or marsh serpent with nine heads, each of which, if cut off, grew back as two; Hercules killed this serpent by cauterizing the necks as he cut off the heads.
2. any freshwater polyp of the genus Hydra and related genera, having a cylindrical body with a ring of tentacles surrounding the mouth, and usually living attached to rocks, plants, etc., but also capable of detaching and floating in the water.
3. a persistent or many-sided problem that presents new obstacles as soon as one aspect is solved.
4. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the Sea Serpent, a large southern constellation extending through 90° of the sky, being the longest of all constellations.

Origin of Hydra

1325-75; Latin Greek hýdrā water serpent (replacing Middle English ydre Middle French otter

Examples for Hydra

The gang is a hydra, he said, and Suffolk County has seen fluctuations in gang activity.

Crater is situated at about the centre of hydra and is on the meridian, April 26th.

Antifragile things, meanwhile, are strengthened by it—just as hydra grows stronger and more multiheaded with every decapitation.

The diseases of a State are like the heads of a hydra; they multiply when they are cut off.

hydra is about 100° in length and reaches almost from Canis Minor to Libra.

If it is not a Trust of transportation, it is only another head of the same hydra.

Grief has been compared to a hydra, for every one that dies two are born.

The Crow is represented as standing on, and pecking at, the coils of hydra.

Slice off at a blow the head of this beast of rebellion, this hydra of heresy.

But this may be like the hydra, where something new can grow in its place.