Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🐉 A many-headed beast 🪐 A Pluto moon 🌌 A star group 🪱 A tiny water animal
Hydra

Hydra

3 8.7
A small moon of the dwarf planet Pluto discovered in 2005
  • proper noun
translation icon : Hydra
  • But Pluto does gravitationally dominate its region—what do you call Charon, Nix, and Hydra?
  • Hydra and Nix

Examples

  • "The old Hydra routine," I muttered.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Hydra-Shok.

    Carry-On (2024)

  • "But Pluto does gravitationally dominate its region—what do you call Charon, Nix, and Hydra?"

    Blog text (30)

  • The small moon Hydra orbits the dwarf planet Pluto, providing valuable data for astronomers.

  • Astronomers discovered Hydra, one of Pluto's moons, in 2005 during a survey of the Kuiper Belt.

  • Like its counterpart Nix, Hydra is a distant moon of Pluto that reveals much about the planet's formation.

Idioms

to battling a hydra
  • Literature
9.9

To deal with a problem that keeps causing many new problems

Compounds

Lernaean Hydra
  • Literature
9.9

A big snake with many heads from Greek myth whose cut heads often grow back as two

Surface Forms

Hydra main

Etymology

Hydra for Pluto's small moon comes from the same Greek many-headed monster. Astronomers gave many of Pluto's moons names from the underworld, so this moon carries the monster's name.