hydra

Example Sentences

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"Greek football is a hydra with many heads. You cut one, others emerge."

From BBC

This unsettling creature is a hydra, a freshwater-dwelling cnidarian no more than a half-inch long that eats mostly insect larvae and crustaceans.

From New York Times

With its head buried deep down in its host, the hundreds of butts of the worm's branching body poke out like a reverse hydra.

From Salon

Calling the restful, unresponsive state seen in jellyfish and hydra “sleeplike” is more acceptable to him.

From Science Magazine

"Most immediately damaging to our country has been the rise of the multi-headed hydra of nationalism," he wrote.

From BBC