HYDRA
\hˈa͡ɪdɹə], \hˈaɪdɹə], \h_ˈaɪ_d_ɹ_ə]\
Definitions of HYDRA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster.
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Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.
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Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
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A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo.
By Oddity Software
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A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster.
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Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.
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Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
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A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo.
By Noah Webster.
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A genus of freshwater cnidarians, of interest because of their complex organization and because their adult organization corresponds roughly to the gastrula of higher animals.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Any evil which. When grappled with, appears to become greater; Hydra, in classical mythology, the water serpent with nine heads (slain by Hercules), each of which on being cut off became two.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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(myth.) A water-serpent with many heads, which when cut off were succeeded by others: any manifold evil: a genus of fresh-water polypes remarkable for their power of being multiplied by being cut or divided.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A water serpent, slain by Hercules, which had nine heads, each one of which when cut off shot up into two; any manifold evil; a genus of fresh-water polyps which multiply when divided; a southern constellation, containing sixty stars.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A water-snake; a fabulous monster serpent having many heads, slain by Hercules; a fresh-water polype.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin, Greek] In mythology, a water-serpent having many heads, one of which, being cut off, was immediately succeeded by another, unless the wound was cauterized;—the name of a genus of zoophytes; polypus;—a large constellation in the southern hemisphere;—also, any evil principle or system, ramified and prolific.
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