Associations to the word «Chimera»
Noun
Wiktionary
CHIMERA, noun. (mythology) Chimera, or any fantastic creature with parts from different animals
CHIMERA, noun. Anything composed of very disparate parts
CHIMERA, noun. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author
CHIMERA, noun. (genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two zygotes
CHIMERA, noun. (architecture) A grotesque, like a gargoyle but without a spout for rainwater
CHIMERA, noun. (usually chimaera) A cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin
CHIMERA, proper noun. (Greek mythology) One of the many fantastical offspring of Typhon and Echidna, a multi-headed monster represented as vomiting flames. It had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and a dragon for a tail. Killed by the hero Bellerophon in Lycea.
Dictionary definition
CHIMERA, noun. (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon.
CHIMERA, noun. A grotesque product of the imagination.
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