hydra
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
trouble that cannot be overcome by a single effort because of its many aspects or its persistent and pervasive quality
we may be facing a hydra that defies any easy solution
Types & categories
- trouble hypernym
Sense 2 noun
small tubular solitary freshwater hydrozoan polyp
Types & categories
- hydrozoan hypernym
Parts & wholes
- genus Hydra member holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | trouble |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | genus Hydra |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | hydrozoan |