Definitions for hydras

hydras hy·dra

Spelling: [hahy-druh]
IPA: /ˈhaɪ drə/

Hydras is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in hydras (adhrsy).

Definitions for hydras

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 hydras

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

Examples for hydras

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for hydras
Scrable

12

Words with friends

10

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