hydra-headed

American  

[hahy-druh-hed-id] / ˈhaɪ drəˌhɛd ɪd /

adjective

1. containing many problems, difficulties, or obstacles.

2. having many branches, divisions, facets, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of hydra-headed

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

Lieberman’s bill fused those two into a new agency, Customs and Border Protection—with Immigration and Customs Enforcement created as an initially small internal police force—then jammed them all into the hydra-headed monstrosity that is DHS.

From Slate

But the protest movement's hydra-headed strength has also proved to be a weakness: it has been largely leaderless with no charismatic figure emerging for people to unite behind.

From BBC

Whatever we’re supposed to call this increasingly hydra-headed Disney content behemoth, it has rarely ventured in a direction this playful, this ghoulish, this exuberantly grotesque.

From Los Angeles Times

This time, it wasn’t a high edict that doomed it, but the unsung, helter-skelter, hydra-headed, revolution-by-a-thousand-cuts process through which real change often comes.

From New York Times

With this sleight of hand, a congressional rule limiting showerhead flows can be deftly avoided by installing a hydra-headed fixture with multiple "showerheads," each flowing at 2.5 gallons per minute.

From Salon