"The lizard dares to face the hydra." is like "Someone is attacking an ash tree with a sickle," one of our friends tells us.
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Hydra
/ˈhaɪdɹə/
Synonyms for "hydra" (21 found)
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Related word relations
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More general
10 entriesMore specific
5 entriesHydra magnipapillataHydra viridissimaHydra vulgarisLernaean Hydrahydra headed problem
Collocations
6 entriesLernaean Hydrafreshwater hydrafreshwater polyphydra headhydrozoan organismregenerative hydra
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
1 entriesTranslations
28 translations across 23 languages.
Albanian
3 entries- kuçedër name (mythical serpent)
- lubi name (mythical serpent)
- shkërbadër name (mythical serpent)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὕδρα name (mythical serpent)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 九頭蛇 /九头蛇 name (mythical serpent)
- 海德拉 name (mythical serpent)
- 許德拉 /许德拉 name (mythical serpent)
Czech
1 entries- Hydra name (mythical serpent)
Danish
1 entries- Hydra name (mythical serpent)
Esperanto
1 entries- hidro name (mythical serpent)
Finnish
1 entries- Hydra name (mythical serpent)
French
1 entries- Hydre de Lerne name (mythical serpent)
Galician
1 entries- Hidra name (mythical serpent)
German
1 entries- Hydra name (mythical serpent)
Greek
1 entries- Λερναία Ύδρα name (mythical serpent)
Greenlandic
1 entries- Hydra name (mythical serpent)
Inuktitut
1 entries- ᐦᐄᑦᕋ name (mythical serpent)
Irish
1 entries- Hydra name (mythical serpent)
Italian
1 entries- Idra di Lerna name (mythical serpent)
Japanese
1 entries- ヒュドラー name (mythical serpent)
Latin
1 entries- hydra name (mythical serpent)
Marathi
1 entries- हायड्रा name (mythical serpent)
Polish
1 entries- Hydra name (mythical serpent)
Portuguese
2 entries- Hidra name (mythical serpent)
- Hidra de Lerna name (mythical serpent)
Russian
1 entries- Лерне́йская ги́дра name (mythical serpent)
Spanish
1 entries- Hidra de Lerna name (mythical serpent)
Telugu
1 entries- హైడ్రా name (mythical serpent)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
"The lizard dares to face the hydra" means something like "Someone is attacking a mountain with a hoe", says another of our friends.
Source: tatoeba (8232179)
"The lizard dares to face the hydra" means something like "His opponent is too strong for him to face."
Source: tatoeba (8239356)
Hydra is one of the most affluent neighborhoods in Algiers.
Source: tatoeba (11409532)
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