chimera, chimaera
(noun) a grotesque product of the imagination
Chimera, Chimaera
(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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
chimera (plural chimeras)
(Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Chimera (a flame-spewing monster often represented as having two heads, one of a goat and the other of a lion; the body of a goat; and a serpent as a tail).
(mythology) Any fantastic creature with parts from different animals.
Anything composed of very disparate parts.
A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
(architecture) A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.
(genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.
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.
• (fish): ghost shark, rabbitfish, ratfish
• (anything composed of very disparate parts): motley crew
• (anything composed of very disparate parts): monolith
• haremic
Chimera
(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.
• haremic
Source: Wiktionary
Chime"ra, n.; pl. Chimeras. Etym: [L. chimaera a chimera (in sense 1), Gr. qymbr a yearling ewe.]
1. (Myth.)
Definition: A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. "Dire chimeras and enchanted isles." Milton.
2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author. Burke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
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