Chimera

CHIMAERA IN FISHERIES. Around the world chimaera are directly targeted by a small number of fisheries. Particularly in coastal waters. In New Zealand and Australian waters, the Elephant Fish is commercially targeted and sold as whitefish fillets. Jun 16, 2020 Chimera coloring happens when multiple fertilized eggs merge in the womb. This means that chimera animals have two sets of DNA. Sometimes they even have both male and female organs and two blood types. Pictures of chimera animals often show creatures that looks stitched together - they're literally two individuals merged into one. Jul 15, 2020 While the Chimera was a distinct individual creature, the world chimera came to be applied to any fantastical animal or monster that blended features of different animals. In the Middle Ages, when Greek myths of the Chimera were largely forgotten, scholars still used the name when referring to a wide variety of legendary animals they believed. Chimera definition is - a fire-breathing she-monster in Greek mythology having a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. How to use chimera in a sentence.

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Chi·me·ra

also Chi·mae·ra(kī-mîr′ə, kĭ-)n.

1. Greek Mythology A fire-breathing female monster usually represented as a composite of a lion, goat, and serpent.

2. An imaginary monster made up of grotesquely disparate parts.

chi·me·ra

also chi·mae·ra(kī-mîr′ə, kĭ-)n.1.

a. An organism, organ, or part consisting of two or more tissues of different genetic composition, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.

b. A gene or protein consisting of parts from two different genes or proteins that are normally distinct, sometimes derived from two different species.

2. An individual who has received a transplant of genetically and immunologically different tissue.

[Middle English chimere, Chimera, from Old French, from Latin chimaera, from Greek khimaira, female goat, Chimera; see ghei- in Indo-European roots.]

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chimera

(kaɪˈmɪərə; kɪ-) or

chimaera

1. (Classical Myth & Legend) (often capital) Greek myth a fire-breathing monster with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a serpent

2. (Art Terms) a fabulous beast made up of parts taken from various animals

4. (Genetics) 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]

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chi•me•ra

or chi•mae•ra

(kɪˈmɪər ə, kaɪ-)
n.,

Chimera Ant Arc

pl. -ras.

1. (often cap.) a monster of classical myth, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.

2. any horrible or grotesque imaginary creature.

4. an organism composed of two or more genetically distinct tissues.

[1350–1400; Middle English < Latin chimaera < Greek chímaira she-goat; akin to Old Norse gymbr, E gimmer ewe-lamb one year (i.e., one winter) old, Latin hiems winter (see hiemal)]

Noun	1.	Chimera - (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks mythical creature, mythical monster - a monster renowned in folklore and myth
2.	chimera - a grotesque product of the imagination imagery, imaging, mental imagery, imagination - the ability to form mental images of things or events; 'he could still hear her in his imagination'

chimera

nounillusion, dream, fantasy, delusion, spectre, snare, hallucination, figment, ignis fatuus, will-o'-the-wispHe spent his life pursuing the chimera of perfect love.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

chimera

nounA fantastic, impracticable plan or desire:

bubble, castle in the air, dream, fantasy, illusion, pipe dream, rainbow.

Chiméra

khimaira

Himera

キマイラキメラ

Chimera Shadow Garden

himeraХимера

chimera

[kaɪˈmɪərə]N → quimeraf

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

chimera

[kaɪˈmɪərə]n

(= monster) → chimèref

chimera

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