Associations to the word «Chimera»

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.

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.