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Значения термина chimaera на английском

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(Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon.

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        An impossible or foolish fantasy or project.

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              Examples for "chimera"
              Examples for "chimera"
              1
              In a day or two, the chimera's location would be common knowledge.
              Axiomatic
              2
              Be this chimera still worshipped; I will do nothing to pollute it.
              Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
              3
              Be this chimera still worshiped; I will do nothing to pollute it.
              The Lock and Key Library: The most interesting stories of all na...
              4
              The most important thing to remember is that chimera are compulsive shape-shifters.
              A nameless witch
              5
              But what he'd really felt was too close to something: a chimera.
              Losing charlotte
              Использование термина chimaera на английском
              1
              Still the bridge was believed to be a mere fable, a chimaera.
              History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
              2
              Such a chimaera has therapeutic potential as a complement inhibitor or immune modulator.
              Pubmed
              3
              And second, while the structure is probably helping the chimaera fertilize the female, it's definitely not a penis.
              Wired
              4
              It's hard to study or account for animals like the California chimaera if you don't even know what they are.
              Wired
              5
              Was it not to be supposed that the madness of the pursuit of his political chimaera might change his character?
              Beauchamp's Career — Volume 4
              6
              And the Darakyon waited, and when he opened his eyes there was no monster, no terrifying chimaera rising before him.
              Empire in black and gold
              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.
              Voice of the Fire
              8
              Mammalian chimaeras have proved useful for investigating early steps in embryonic development.
              Pubmed
              9
              Sharks and chimaeras don't even technically have penises in the first place.
              Wired
              10
              Space is thronged with these dragon-like forms, chimaeras of the fearful mind.
              AE in the Irish Theosophist
              11
              To draw chimaeras is not, properly speaking, to copy or imitate.
              The Illustrated London Reading Book
              12
              A lucky thought occurred to him, to send Bellerophon to combat with the Chimaera.
              Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
              13
              They've found 11 new species of sharks, rays and chimaeras in the last three years.
              Wired
              14
              He was afraid lest King Iobates should imagine that he had fled from the Chimaera.
              My First Cruise, and Other stories
              15
              The fabulous monsters, Typhæus, or Typhon, and Chimæra, are probably in this matter his prototypes.
              Welsh Folk-Lore / a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of ...
              16
              Nothing else was ever seen of the dreadful Chimaera!
              My First Cruise, and Other stories
              Translations for chimaera
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              каталонский
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              испанский
              quimera
              Chimaera через время