Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Greek Mythology The many-headed monster that was slain by Hercules.
- noun Astronomy A satellite of Pluto.
- noun A constellation in the equatorial region of the southern sky near Cancer, Libra, and Centaurus.
- noun A persistent or multifaceted problem that cannot be eradicated by a single effort.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Hydridae — predatory freshwatercnidarians , thought not to age, thehydras . - proper noun Greek mythology A
mythological serpent with sevenheads , slain byHercules as one of his twelvelabours . Also called the Lernaean Hydra. - proper noun astronomy A
spring constellation of thenorthern sky, said to resemble aserpent . It lies just south of thezodiac and contains the starAlphard . - proper noun astronomy The name of one of
Pluto 's moons. (Named 21 June 2006).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And another commentator described what he dubbed the Hydra Effect, which means drugs are so profitable and so cheap to produce that even if you begin to cut off the supply in one part of the world, it simply rears its head in another part of the world.
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It was Julia who’d dreamed up the name Hydra for the miracle anti-inflammatory that also softened your stool, improved your mood, lowered your blood pressure, and didn’t eat away your intestinal lining.
Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006
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It was Julia who’d dreamed up the name Hydra for the miracle anti-inflammatory that also softened your stool, improved your mood, lowered your blood pressure, and didn’t eat away your intestinal lining.
Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006
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It was Julia who’d dreamed up the name Hydra for the miracle anti-inflammatory that also softened your stool, improved your mood, lowered your blood pressure, and didn’t eat away your intestinal lining.
Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006
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The Hydra is two miles off short so that would be the mark at the top.
The Tail Section » LOST - Are the others Scientologists? 2007
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A star in Hydra has been swallowing its own planets -- naughty, naughty!
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Pixel Bender was formerly called Hydra and it has been shown publicly on several occasions.
News 2009
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Pixel Bender was formerly called Hydra and it has been shown publicly on several occasions.
News 2009
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11In 1921, Kallihroe Parren returned from her political exile in Hydra to find that the terms of women's emancipation had shifted significantly.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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The chess machine Hydra, which is a chess-specific supercomputer like Deep Blue, was no match for a strong human player using a relatively weak laptop.
Garry Kasparov On 'Chess Metaphors': The Chess Master And The Computer 2010
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