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# hydra

«hydra» in Mova's school dictionary: **A monster from Greek stories: a huge snake with many…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (hydras)

### meaning for a pupil

A monster from Greek stories: a huge snake with many heads, where cutting one off lets more grow. Also a tiny water creature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hydra/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in myths, the many-headed monster that a hero must slay

### examples

- The hero had to slay the hydra. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hydra/#x1)
- The hydra had nine heads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hydra/#x2)

### note

the word gives no number; if a problem says the hydra has nine heads, that count is exact, as stated in the tale

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hydra» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hydra/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.