Associations to the word «Chimaera»

CHIMAERA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Chimaeridae   — the ghost sharks.

CHIMAERA, proper noun. (Greek mythology) One of the many fantastical offspring (fe. Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra) of Typhon and Echidna, a multi-headed monster often represented as vomiting flames with the head of a lion, the body (and additional head) of a goat, and a serpent for a tail. Killed by the hero Bellerophon in Lycea.

CHIMAERA, noun. Alternative spelling of chimera

CHIMAERA, noun. 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

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.

CHIMAERA, noun. A grotesque product of the imagination.

CHIMAERA, noun. A deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail.