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Meaning of chimaera

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chimaera

noun

Definitions

  1. 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

noun

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Chimera (a flame-spewing monster often represented as having two heads, one of a goat and the other of a lion; the body of a goat; and a serpent as a tail).

  2. Any fantastic creature with parts from different animals.

  3. Anything composed of very disparate parts.

    Example: The car which he built himself was a real chimera: half Volkswagen and half Porsche.

  4. A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.