Chimera
WordNet
noun
(1) A grotesque product of the imagination
(2) (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon
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Etymology
From . The fabulous monster in Lycea (with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail), supposedly personification of snow or winter, orig. "year-old she-goat", from . Meaning "wild fantasy" first recorded 1587.
Noun
- Chimera, or any fabulous creature with parts from different animals.
- A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.
- An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two zygotes.
- A gargoyle that does not work as a waterspout.
- (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.