chimera
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ə, kaɪ- noun, plural chi·me·ras.
1.
( often initial capital letter ) a mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
2.
any similarly grotesque monster having disparate parts, especially as depicted in decorative art.
3.
a horrible or unreal creature of the imagination; a vain or idle fancy: He is far different from the chimera your fears have made of him.
4.
Genetics. an organism composed of two or more genetically distinct tissues, as an organism that is partly male and partly female, or an artificially produced individual having tissues of several species.
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chimera or chimaera (kaɪˈmɪərə, kɪ-, kaɪˈmɪərə, kɪ-) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | (often capital) Greek myth a fire-breathing monster with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a serpent |
| 2. | a fabulous beast made up of parts taken from various animals |
| 3. | a wild and unrealistic dream or notion |
| 4. | biology an organism, esp a cultivated plant, consisting of at least two genetically different kinds of tissue as a result of mutation, grafting, etc |
| [C16: from Latin chimaera, from Greek khimaira she-goat, from khimaros he-goat] | |
| chimaera or chimaera | |
| —n | |
| [C16: from Latin chimaera, from Greek khimaira she-goat, from khimaros he-goat] | |
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Word Origin & History
chimera
late 14c., from L. Chimaera, from Gk. chimaira, a fabulous monster (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 cheima "winter season." Meaning "wild fantasy" first recorded 1587.
"Beestis clepid chymeres, that han a part of ech beest, and suche ben not, no but oonly in opynyoun." [Wyclif, "Prologue"]Related: Chimeric (1650s); chimerical (1630s).
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Medical Dictionary
chimera chi·me·ra (kī-mēr'ə, kĭ-)
n.
One who has received a transplant of genetically and immunologically different tissue.
Twins with two immunologically different types of red blood cells.
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Cultural Dictionary
chimera [(keye-meer-uh, ki-meer-uh)]A monster in classical mythology who had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon or serpent.
Note: Figuratively, a “chimera” is a creation of the imagination, especially a wild creation.
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Computing Dictionary
Chimera definition
World-Wide WebA modular, X Window System-based World-Wide Web browser for Unix. Chimera uses the Athena widget set so Motif is not needed. It supports forms, inline images, TERM, SOCKS, proxy servers, Gopher, FTP, HTTP and local file accesses. Chimera can be extended using external programs. New protocols can easily be added and alternate image formats can be used for inline images (e.g. PostScript).
Version 1.60 is available for (ftp://ftp.cs.unlv.edu/pub/chimera).
(http://unlv.edu/chimera/).
Chimera runs on Sun SPARC SunOS 4.1.x, IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2.5, Linux 1.1.x. It should run on anything with X11R[3-6], imake and a C compiler.
(1994-11-08)
Example sentences
The first sight to greet a visitor to the show is a colossal stone chimera, a hybrid of lion and bird, in the museum lobby.
The search for certainty in empirical knowledge is a chimera.
Im still researching what the reason for my eye colour is but some of the information is quite scary ie chimera and mosaic dna.
EU is a chimera that can't prevent old nations from playing their dices.
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