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hydra
hydra is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 10 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.
- 3noun
Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
- 4noun
A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo.
- 5noun
small tubular solitary freshwater hydrozoan polyp
- 6noun
trouble that cannot be overcome by a single effort because of its many aspects or its persistent and pervasive quality
"we may be facing a hydra that defies any easy solution"
- 7noun
a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
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- 8noun
(Greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones
"Hydra was slain by Hercules"
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