2syllables
chimaera
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Definitions ofchimaera
1noun
- 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
1noun
- 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).
- Any fantastic creature with parts from different animals.
- Anything composed of very disparate parts.
Example: "The car which he built himself was a real chimera: half Volkswagen and half Porsche."
- A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
- A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.
- 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.
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