chimeras
noun
Meaning
- 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).
- Any fantastic creature with parts from different animals.
- Anything composed of very disparate parts.
- A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
- A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.
- An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.
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