(Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon.
An impossible or foolish fantasy or project.
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Examples for "chimera"
Examples for "chimera"
1In a day or two, the chimera's location would be common knowledge.
2Be this chimera still worshipped; I will do nothing to pollute it.
3Be this chimera still worshiped; I will do nothing to pollute it.
4The most important thing to remember is that chimera are compulsive shape-shifters.
5But what he'd really felt was too close to something: a chimera.
1It is my belief that the chimæra could not have survived a respectable length of time in its environment.
3The fololwing of a conata, like the bombination of a chimæra, apparently puts some strain upon the attention of an audience.
4It is likely that a more modest, necessary, and adaptable animal evolved from the chimæra, though I have no evidence to that end.
5There must be some element in the bone, blood, or brain of the cerberus and the chimæra that allowed for the growth of multiple heads.
6Mammalian chimaeras have proved useful for investigating early steps in embryonic development.
7Sharks and chimaeras don't even technically have penises in the first place.
8Space is thronged with these dragon-like forms, chimaeras of the fearful mind.
9Still the bridge was believed to be a mere fable, a chimaera.
10Such a chimaera has therapeutic potential as a complement inhibitor or immune modulator.
11To draw chimaeras is not, properly speaking, to copy or imitate.
12A lucky thought occurred to him, to send Bellerophon to combat with the Chimaera.
13They've found 11 new species of sharks, rays and chimaeras in the last three years.
14He was afraid lest King Iobates should imagine that he had fled from the Chimaera.
15The fabulous monsters, Typhæus, or Typhon, and Chimæra, are probably in this matter his prototypes.
16Nothing else was ever seen of the dreadful Chimaera!