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hydra
[ hahy-druh ]
noun
- Often Hydra. 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.
- 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.
- a persistent or many-sided problem that presents new obstacles as soon as one aspect is solved.
- genitive Hydrae [hahy, -dree]. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the Sea Serpent, a large southern constellation extending through 90° of the sky, being the longest of all constellations.
Hydra
1/ ˈhaɪdrə /
noun
- Greek myth a monster with nine heads, each of which, when struck off, was replaced by two new ones
hydra
2/ ˈhaɪdrə /
noun
- any solitary freshwater hydroid coelenterate of the genus Hydra, in which the body is a slender polyp with tentacles around the mouth
- a persistent trouble or evil
the hydra of the Irish problem
Hydra
3/ ˈhaɪdrə /
noun
- a very long faint constellation lying mainly in the S hemisphere and extending from near Virgo to Cancer
hydra
/ hī′drə /
, Plural hydras hī′drē
- See under hydroid
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But this may be like the Hydra, where something new can grow in its place.
Antifragile things, meanwhile, are strengthened by it—just as Hydra grows stronger and more multiheaded with every decapitation.
Editor's note: An earlier version of this article confused the monster Hydra with Medusa.
The gang is a hydra, he said, and Suffolk County has seen fluctuations in gang activity.
But the animal itself is the same "hydra-headed monster," let whomsoever may fancy to pet it.
I aimed at the many-headed hydra whose visible representative was Frick.
The Homestead developments had given him temporary prominence, thrown this particular hydra-head into bold relief, so to speak.
Evil complicates, by one knows not what hydra-headed monstrosity, the vast, cosmic whole.
Navigation everywhere contends with the same monster; the sea is one hydra.
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