"hydra" Definition

Definitions for the word "hydra" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
1 freshwater polyp with a tubular body and tentacles. 2 something hard to destroy. [greek, a mythical snake with many heads that grew again when cut off]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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