chimaera
any fish of the family Chimaeridae, the male of which has a spiny clasping organ over the mouth.
any similar fish of the group Holocephali, which includes this family.
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How to use chimaera in a sentence
That means that the chimaera crab was probably zooming through the water, chasing after whatever its eyes locked onto.
This 90-million-year-old crab had the eyes of a hunter | Philip Kiefer | January 11, 2022 | Popular-ScienceNext he catches up Gyas and the vast bulk of the chimaera; she gives way, without her steersman.
The Aeneid of Virgil | VirgilThe teeth of chimaera are more adapted for cutting, those of Callorhynchus for crushing.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. ReynoldsMany extinct forms are known, some of whose teeth are intermediate in structure between those of chimaera and Callorhynchus.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. ReynoldsIn chimaera all three basalia are present, but the meso-pterygium is shifted and does not articulate with the pectoral girdle.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
On came the chimaera, her serpent tail lashing the stones, but Bellerophon ever kept on the further side of a great tall rock.
Tales of Troy and Greece | Andrew Lang
British Dictionary definitions for chimaera
/ (kaɪˈmɪərə, kɪ-) /
any tapering smooth-skinned cartilaginous deep-sea fish of the subclass Holocephali (or Bradyodonti), esp any of the genus Chimaera. They have a skull in which the upper jaw is fused to the cranium: See also rabbitfish (def. 1)
Greek myth a variant spelling of chimera (def. 1)
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