Hydra is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HYDRA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a kind of freshwater polyp
• a many-headed snake whose heads grew again as they were cut off, eventually killed by Hercules.
• a thing which is hard to overcome or resist because of its pervasive or enduring quality or its many aspects
• the largest constellation (the Water Snake or Sea Monster), said to represent the beast slain by Hercules. Its few bright stars are close to the celestial equator.
• used with preceding letter or numeral to designate a star in the Hydra constellation
• mythical many-headed water serpent
• 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.
• Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.
• Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
• A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo.
• (Greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones
• a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
• trouble that cannot be overcome by a single effort because of its many aspects or its persistent and pervasive quality
• small tubular solitary freshwater hydrozoan polyp
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a freshwater polyp

Words related to HYDRA

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Words that contain HYDRA

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How to use HYDRA in a sentence

• For these reasons, the Slave Trade may be considered like the fabulous hydra, to have a hundred heads, every one of which it was necessary to cut off before it could be subdued.
• Hydra, Ipsara, and Samos equipped a flotilla which drove the Turkish fleet back to the Dardanelles with immense losses.
• The English ambassador at Constantinople had a secret interview with Mavrokordatos on an island near Hydra, and promised him the intervention of England.
• When you think he has exhausted his battery of looks, in unaccountable warfare with your gravity, suddenly he sprouts out an entirely new set of features, like Hydra.
• The conflict of opinions is like that of Hercules with the Hydra.
• I told him to always bear in mind what a hydra was that Beda, and at how many mouths he belched forth venom.
• Without these officers our citizen army would be a hydra without heads.
• It is a grievous error to suppose that this cruel, this worthless hydra has any political feeling.
• John Howard had grappled with the hydra before her, and finally succumbed to his exertions.
• Floods are also referred to as dragons, and the Hydra, or water serpent, slain by Hercules, belongs to this category.
• The Hydra and Childers joined, this day, from Magdalena, but brought no intelligence.
• These arrows had been dipped in the blood of the hydra, a monster Hercules had slain.
• The Hydra was a fabled monster of Grecian mythology, having nine heads, one of which was immortal.
• We have met it, with pain indeed, but with firmness, because we believed it the last convulsive effort of that Hydra, which in earlier times we had conquered in the field.
• Every one must allow that this story is just as natural as that of Hercules destroying the hydra, or the more modern one of Jack the giant-killer.
• While he was still in his cradle, Hercules had strangled two serpents, and he had met a Hydra with a hundred heads that he had cut off.
• Perhaps, some day or other, as a last peace-offering to the Republican hydra, MM.
• Hydra, rising between Sirius and Leo, extended under three signs.
• Our ideal is no longer the tranquil beauty of the soul, it is the anguish of Laocoon fighting with the hydra of evil.
• In Greek legend the hydra was a serpent with seven heads, and, when one of them was cut off, two grew in its place.
• This story of Hercules and the Hydra, then, was to the general Greek mind, in its best days, a tale about a real hero and a real monster.
• Your coming has evoked the hydra in me, who am a goddess.
• Eunuchs usurp authority, and the hydra of rebellion raises its many heads.
• In those days, there was in Greece a monstrous serpent known as the Hydra of Lerna, because it haunted a marsh of that name whence it issued in search of prey.
• In return for this service he gave Philoctetes a quiver full of those deadly arrows that had been dipped in the blood of the Hydra of Lerna.
• Sent Euryalus to watch the Enemy with the Hydra off Cadiz.
• From there, I hurried to the main street of Linrock and to that section where violence brooded, ready at any chance moment to lift its hydra head.

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