Meaning Of The Word Hydra

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Hydra in American English
the nine-headed serpent slain by Hercules as one of his twelve labors: when any one of its heads is cut off, it is replaced by two others
noun: 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

hydra in British English
noun: any solitary freshwater hydroid coelenterate of the genus Hydra, in which the body is a slender polyp with tentacles around the mouth

Hydra in British English 1
noun: a monster with nine heads, each of which, when struck off, was replaced by two new ones

Hydra in British English 2
noun: a very long faint constellation lying mainly in the S hemisphere and extending from near Virgo to Cancer

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