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Definition of Hydras
1. hydra [n] - See also: hydra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydras
Literary usage of Hydras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1888)
"16), another stage of complexity is intro- din-ed liy the restriction of the
power to bud jelly-fish to certain hydras, while others become specialized for ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"... not only by foreigners, but by many of our own critics, as a gloomy and heavy
writer, who painted nothing but "gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire. ..."
3. Microscopy for Beginners: Or, Common Objects from the Ponds and Ditches by Alfred Cheatham Stokes (1887)
"hydras adherent to Lemna rootlets. hydras nearly the natural size adherent to
Lemna rootlets. The body is like a narrow bag, the hollow part of the little ..."
4. Habit and Intelligence: A Series of Essays on the Laws of Life and Mind by Joseph John Murphy (1879)
"2 Bud-variation in hydras and in Coral.—It is worth mentioning, though not at
all wonderful, that " any peculiar character presented by a compound animal is ..."
5. ... The Teaching of Biology in the Secondary School by Francis Ernest Lloyd, Maurice Alpheus Bigelow (1904)
"Under the influence of diffused light the hydras will migrate to the sides of
the vessel. The hardy green hydras may often be collected even in midwinter by ..."
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