Crossword clues for hydras
hydras
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hydra \Hy"dra\, n.; pl. E. Hydras, L. Hydr[ae]. [L. hydra, Gr. "y`dra; akin to "y`dwr water. See Otter the animal, Water.]
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(Class. Myth.) 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.
Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
--Milton. Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.
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(Zo["o]l.) Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
Note: The body is a simple tube, having a mouth at one extremity, surrounded by a circle of tentacles with which it captures its prey. Young hydras bud out from the sides of the older ones, but soon become detached and are then like their parent. Hydras are remarkable for their power of repairing injuries; for if the body be divided in pieces, each piece will grow into a complete hydra, to which fact the name alludes. The zooids or hydranths of marine hydroids are sometimes called hydras.
(Astron.) A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of hydra English)
Usage examples of "hydras".
But so also will the Vores and the gorgons, the hydras and the birds of death.
The creature has already been summarily condemned to death by Paul, just as the Hydras were.
If you try to ream your sister she'll kill herself Fury inserted the compulsion into all of the original Hydras to prevent their betraying him.
Madeleine will turn the babies into a fresh generation of Hydras and the obscenity will begin all over again.
The monster retains his ascendancy by feeding on lifeforce, as Victor and the Hydras did.
When Fury made the Hydras he installed a permanent inhibition to prevent them from turning on him.
All of the Hydras had been condemned in absentia by the First Magnate because of their earlier crimes, and there seemed no good reason for me to hand her over to the authorities.
Then where the hell were you when Fury and his Hydras were doing their metapsychic vampire act back in those thrilling days of yesteryear?
If the Hydras were killing and feeding in their customary vampiric fashion, they were doing it so artfully that they left no clues.
Fury can change the superficial mental signatures of the Hydras, which is why they've been able to remain at large.
Even if the other Hydras had lived on the cosmop planet, they would surely have fled as soon as Alvarez was arrested.
She might deduce in time that the Hydras had avoided using metaconcert for a very good reason.
Find a way to keep Papa and the rest of the Dynasty away from him until the Hydras are in custody and they tell us who Fury is.
The big hydras preferred clear, slow-moving water, but there were smaller forms in nearly all deep streams.
At its bottom snaked a wide stream no deeper than a stallion’s knees, and there were no hydras in the muddy waters.