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  • noun astronomy Genitive form of Hydra used when naming stars, such as α Hydrae.

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Examples

  • Ngôi sao V Hydrae là trong cái chết đau đớn cuối cùng của nó.

    ideonexus.com »2004» Tháng Tư 2004

  • The Human Federation had called them "Hydrans" because we'd first encountered them in the Beta Hydrae system.

    Dreamfall Vinge, Joan D. 1996

  • Hae autem sagittae eaedem erant quae sanguine Hydrae ólim imbútae erant.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • 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.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • Postquam Eurystheó caedés Hydrae núntiáta est, mágnus timor animum éius occupávit.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • Nec tamen sine mágnó labóre haec fécit; vénit enim auxilió Hydrae cancer ingéns, quí, dum Herculés capita abscídit, crúra éius mordébat.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • 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.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

  • 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.

    Ullr Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934

  • 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

    The Edge of the Knife H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Postquam Eurystheō mors Hydrae nuntiata est, summus terror animum eius occupavit.

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

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