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- noun zoology One of a family (Lernaeidae) of
parasitic crustaceans found attached tofishes and othermarine animals .
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Examples
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Heracles and the Lernean hydra image from flickr. com by Eva the Weaver
Against the Tortured Logic of Obama's Placebo Presidency: A Call for the Audacity of Hopelessness 2009
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It seems very provoking that astronomers and other men of sense should be obliged to waste their time and energy in proving Astrology to be false, when there exists not the slightest reason to believe any part of it true … The fallacies of Astrology are like the many heads of the Lernean Hydra; chop off one, and two grow in its place.
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When a lover has vanquished the Lernean hydra in order to pay them a visit he has no merit in their eyes; they are only grateful to him for the pleasure he gives; they neither know nor care what it costs.
A Daughter of Eve 2007
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Lernean hydra and the Nemean lion and to lifts rivers from their beds, which are the labors of manhood in full vigor.
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As others pressed behind them the hero drew forth his arrows poisoned with the gall of the Lernean hydra, and sent among them many a shaft.
Heroes Every Child Should Know Hamilton Wright Mabie 1880
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Achilles arming before Thetis; a winged Hercules killing the Lernean
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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Such, for instance, are the labours in which he destroys the terrible Nemean lion and Lernean hydra, carries off the girdle of Ares from Hippolyte, queen of the
A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest William Smith 1853
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Hercules 'Labour and lifelong wrestle with that Lernean
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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