chimera
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Chimera
(alternative case form of), a supposed monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or serpent, killed by the hero Bellerophon.
1382, (w), (w), Prologue|Prologue, p. 31:
- ...beestis clepid chymeres, that han a part of ech beest, and suche ben not, no but oonly in opynyoun...
(quote-journal) was commanded to destroy this monster, and with the assistance of the flying horse, Pegasus, he slew the chimera.
(ux)
Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.
(quote-book)|chapter=XV|title=The Nowlans|location=London|publisher=Simms and M‘Intyre, (w); and Donegall Street, Belfast|year=1853|page=142|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=coRCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA142|oclc=57402740|passage=A voice had called him forth to think in solitude—a voice he durst not resist, the awful one of the future. It fell on John's heart like the mutter of approaching desolation. He heard it coming on, as the spell-bound in a hideous dream await, wordless and shivering, the progress of some chimera monster, whose grasp is to crush and destroy.
(quote-book)
(senseid) A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
(RQ:Defoe Crusoe)
(RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein)
(quote-book), London|Strand|year=1841|page=344|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=rmgOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA344|oclc=972847362|passage=As to being taken up, himself, for a rioter, and punished with the rest, Mr Dennis dismissed that possibility from his thoughts as an idle chimera; arguing that the line of conduct he had adopted at Newgate, and the service he had rendered that day, would be more than a set-off against any evidence which might identify him as a member of the crowd: (..)
(ux), the body of a (w), and the tail of an aftermarket (w).
(quote-journal)|url=http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/14911800.All_about__Running_Away_With_the_Circus_____Trans_Siberian_March_Band/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118145145/http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/14911800.All_about__Running_Away_With_the_Circus_____Trans_Siberian_March_Band/|archivedate=18 November 2016|newspaper=Swindon Advertiser|location=England|publisher=Newsquest Media Group|date=17 November 2016|oclc=836787738|passage=Throughout 12 tracks the ear is treated to a musical chimera where folk frolics and gypsy jaunts fight with klezmeric machinations and Slavic ska to form a brass infused Ottoman folk-punk or it might just be the sound of Bellowhead working as the house band in an Armenian brothel.|accessdate=24 February 2017
An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.
(quote-book) occur rarely in our species. Recent examples include a woman who resulted from the merger of two zygotes or the early fusion of two genetically distinct embryos.
(alternative form of), a cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass (taxfmt) and especially the order (taxfmt), with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first fin.
(quote-book) are an extant group of about 30 species. They have the upper jaw fused with the cranium and a gill cover over the four gill slits. They also have toothy plates that give them a ratlike appearance, thus the common name "ratfish." The group occurs in ocean depths worldwide, where they mainly feed on invertebrates.
(synonym of): any terrifying thing, especially as an unreal, imagined threat.
{{quote-book|en|year=1587|translators=Philip Sidney; et al.|author=Philippe de Mornay|title=A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion|page=433
{{quote-text|en|year=1730|author=James Thomson|chapter=Autumn|title=The Seasons|page=177
(l)
(l), a kind of shark of the genus ''Chimaera''
(l) (gl)
(syn)
chimaera, (l), rabbitfish, ratfish (gl)