hydra 的定义
plural hy·dras, hy·drae [hahy-dree] /ˈhaɪ dri/ for 1-3, genitive hy·drae [hahy-dree] /ˈhaɪ dri/ for 4.
- Classical Mythology. 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.
- any freshwater polyp of the genus Hydra and related genera, having a cylindrical body with a ring of tentacles surrounding the mouth, and usually living attached to rocks, plants, etc., but also capable of detaching and floating in the water.
- a persistent or many-sided problem that presents new obstacles as soon as one aspect is solved.
- Astronomy. the Sea Serpent, a large southern constellation extending through 90° of the sky, being the longest of all constellations.
hydra 近义词
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等同于 polyp
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更多hydra例句
- As long as that remains the case, harassing groups can attack like hydras, unafraid to lose one, two, or three hundred heads if it means they damage their targets.
- The Technion group microscopically examined a piece of hydra tissue as it regenerated, particularly its multicellular fibers that lie parallel to the long axis of a mature hydra.
- In 2020, physicists and biologists at the Technion in Israel analyzed the hydra, a fresh-water animal up to a centimeter long.
- If it was the common ancestor between hydras and humans, it likely had neurons and something like muscle that enabled it to move — and the absence of that movement was characteristic of its version of sleep, fulfilling its special needs.
- The new revelations about sleep in hydras push the sleep discoveries to a new extreme.
- But this may be like the Hydra, where something new can grow in its place.
- Antifragile things, meanwhile, are strengthened by it—just as Hydra grows stronger and more multiheaded with every decapitation.
- Editor's note: An earlier version of this article confused the monster Hydra with Medusa.
- The gang is a hydra, he said, and Suffolk County has seen fluctuations in gang activity.
- But the animal itself is the same "hydra-headed monster," let whomsoever may fancy to pet it.
- I aimed at the many-headed hydra whose visible representative was Frick.
- The Homestead developments had given him temporary prominence, thrown this particular hydra-head into bold relief, so to speak.
- Evil complicates, by one knows not what hydra-headed monstrosity, the vast, cosmic whole.
- Navigation everywhere contends with the same monster; the sea is one hydra.