(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.
1 Still the bridge was believed to be a mere fable, a chimaera .
2 Such a chimaera has therapeutic potential as a complement inhibitor or immune modulator.
3 And second, while the structure is probably helping the chimaera fertilize the female, it's definitely not a penis.
4 It's hard to study or account for animals like the California chimaera if you don't even know what they are.
5 Was it not to be supposed that the madness of the pursuit of his political chimaera might change his character?
6 And the Darakyon waited, and when he opened his eyes there was no monster, no terrifying chimaera rising before him.
7 They kept amongst their own kind and made little fuss, yet fresh from home I thought the city Hades; they its fiends and chimaera .
8 Mammalian chimaeras have proved useful for investigating early steps in embryonic development.
9 Sharks and chimaeras don't even technically have penises in the first place.
10 Space is thronged with these dragon-like forms, chimaeras of the fearful mind.
11 To draw chimaeras is not, properly speaking, to copy or imitate.
12 A lucky thought occurred to him, to send Bellerophon to combat with the Chimaera .
13 They've found 11 new species of sharks, rays and chimaeras in the last three years.
14 He was afraid lest King Iobates should imagine that he had fled from the Chimaera .
15 The fabulous monsters, Typhæus, or Typhon, and Chimæra , are probably in this matter his prototypes.
16 Nothing else was ever seen of the dreadful Chimaera !
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