What is the name meaning of HYDRA. Phrases containing HYDRA
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Water; The Hydra in Heracles; Feminine of Hydr
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(á½Î´Ïα) Greek name derived from the word hydor, HYDRA means "water." In mythology, this is the name of a many-headed water dragon killed by Herakles.
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A dragon killed by Hercules.
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Hydraulic.
imp. & p. p.
of Hydrate
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Formed into a hydrate; combined with water.
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Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Hydrate
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of Hydra
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Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an hydraulic clock, crane, or dock.
n.
Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
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An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal (Hydrastis Canadensis), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge.
v. t.
To form into a hydrate; to combine with water.
n.
A genus of hydroids having large, naked, flowerlike hydranths at the summits of long, slender, usually simple, stems. The gonophores are small, and form clusters at the bases of the outer tentacles.
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An aquatic mite of the genus Hydrachna. The hydrachnids, while young, are parasitic on fresh-water mussels.
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A diseased condition produced by poisoning with hydrargyrum, or mercury; mercurialism.
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of Hydra
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Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite.
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Any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds; as, methyl hydrazine, phenyl hydrazine, etc. They are derivatives of hydrazine proper, H2N.NH2, which is a doubled amido group, recently (1887) isolated as a stable, colorless gas, with a peculiar, irritating odor. As a base it forms distinct salts. Called also diamide, amidogen, (or more properly diamidogen), etc.
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Any species or marine hydroids, of the genus Hydractinia and allied genera. These hydroids form, by their rootstalks, a firm, chitinous coating on shells and stones, and esp. on spiral shells occupied by hermit crabs. See Illust. of Athecata.
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A substance which does not contain water as such, but has its constituents (hydrogen, oxygen, hydroxyl) so arranged that water may be eliminated; hence, a derivative of, or compound with, hydroxyl; hydroxide; as, ethyl hydrate, or common alcohol; calcium hydrate, or slaked lime.
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A hydragogue medicine, usually a cathartic or diuretic.
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The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate.