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- noun astronomy Genitive form of
Hydra used when naming stars, such as α Hydrae.
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Examples
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Ngôi sao V Hydrae là trong cái chết đau đớn cuối cùng của nó.
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The Human Federation had called them "Hydrans" because we'd first encountered them in the Beta Hydrae system.
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Hae autem sagittae eaedem erant quae sanguine Hydrae ólim imbútae erant.
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This is called the double dative construction, auxilió the dative of purpose, and Hydrae the dative of reference, i.e. the dative denoting the person interested.
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Postquam Eurystheó caedés Hydrae núntiáta est, mágnus timor animum éius occupávit.
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Nec tamen sine mágnó labóre haec fécit; vénit enim auxilió Hydrae cancer ingéns, quí, dum Herculés capita abscídit, crúra éius mordébat.
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Dip a pitcher into any pool of fresh water where Duck-Weed or Lilies are growing in the summer, and you are sure to bring up hundreds of these fresh-water Hydrae, swarming in myriads in all our ponds.
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Long Toms, built in Kankad's own shops, which covered the road up the sloping rock-spine behind the city; the printing-shop and book-bindery; the observatory, with a big telescope and an ingenious orrery of the Beta Hydrae system; the nuclear-power plant, part of the original price for giving up brigandage.
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Mutiny, and then rejected it -- he could "remember" something much like that on one of the planets of the Beta Hydrae system, in the Fourth
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Postquam Eurystheō mors Hydrae nuntiata est, summus terror animum eius occupavit.
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