GENUS HYDRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Hydra mean? 

• GENUS HYDRA (noun)
  The noun GENUS HYDRA has 1 sense:

1. hydras

  Familiarity information: GENUS HYDRA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS HYDRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hydras

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Hydra" is a kind of...):

coelenterate genus (a genus of coelenterates)

Meronyms (members of "genus Hydra"):

hydra (small tubular solitary freshwater hydrozoan polyp)

Holonyms ("genus Hydra" is a member of...):

class Hydrozoa; Hydrozoa (coelenterates typically having alternation of generations; hydroid phase is usually colonial giving rise to the medusoid phase by budding: hydras and jellyfishes)