Hydra
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- proper noun
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Hidra
- During a clear night, you can easily spot Hydra stretching across the celestial equator.
- constellation Hydra
- star in Hydra
- brightest star in Hydra
Examples
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You know, Leonard Cohen used to come over here from Hydra.
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Repeat, this is the Starship... Enterprise, our position is Gamma Hydra, Section 10.
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With fire keeping the heads from regrowing, the dead serpent's remains became the Hydra constellation.
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Next up: my trip to the car-free island of Hydra (where they still ride donkeys, no kidding).
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One of the largest constellations in the southern sky, Hydra is located between Virgo and Cancer.
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As spring approaches, Hydra becomes more visible in the southern sky, offering a beautiful sight for stargazers.
Synonyms
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A faint group of stars near the equator in the sky between Virgo and Cancer
Idioms
Compounds
- Literature
A big snake with many heads from Greek myth whose cut heads often grow back as two
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hydra comes from an old Greek name for a 'water-snake' and shares the root hydro-, as in the word 'hydrate', meaning 'water', so the long constellation was named because it looks like a snake stretching across the sky.