hydra
noun
Often Hydra a water or marsh serpent with nine heads, each of which, if cut off, grew back as two; Hercules killed this serpent by cauterizing the necks as he cut off the heads.
hydras
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pluralof hydra.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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On the topic of aging, Earth does actually have organisms that are functionally immortal, such as hydras.
From Scientific American ● May 28, 2023
"Online services are like hydras, if you fix one problem, another one often emerges," James Mickens, a professor of computer science at Harvard, explains in a statement.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2021
Everyone in New York has heard about co-op boards that proved to be the most persnickety of the many many-headed hydras exerting authority over daily life.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2016
The name van Leeuwenhoek gave them was “polyps,” though they would eventually be commonly known as hydras.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2016
There were miniature lions, pigs, dragons, hydras, even a teeny Minotaur in a little Minotaur diaper.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
