Definitions for chimaera

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chimaera chi·mae·ra

Spelling: [ki-meer-uh, kahy-]

IPA: /kɪˈmɪər ə, kaɪ-/

Chimaera is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 295 anagrams from letters in chimaera (aacehimr).

Definitions for chimaera

noun

1. any fish of the family Chimaeridae, the male of which has a spiny clasping organ over the mouth.
2. any similar fish of the group Holocephali, which includes this family.
3. chimera.
4. (often initial capital letter) a mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
5. any similarly grotesque monster having disparate parts, especially as depicted in decorative art.
6. a horrible or unreal creature of the imagination; a vain or idle fancy:
7. Genetics. an organism composed of two or more genetically distinct tissues, as an organism that is partly male and partly female, or an artificially produced individual having tissues of several species.

Origin of chimaera

First recorded in 1795-1805; See origin at chimera

Examples for chimaera

If Bellerophon had been told truly, it was in one of those dismal valleys that the hideous chimaera had taken up its abode.

But the chimaera was so mad and wild with pain, that it did not guard itself so well as might else have been the case.

Nobody should ever try to fight an earth-born chimaera, unless he can first get upon the back of an aerial steed.

Do you think that the two of us can fly the chimaera south again?

The chimaera, by this time, after losing its second head, had got into a red-hot passion of pain and rampant rage.

All at once, Bellerophon started as from a dream, and knew it to be the chimaera.

“The chimaera must have done this mischief,” thought Bellerophon.

Perhaps, after all, the best way to fight a chimaera is by getting as close to it as you can.

Still the bridge was believed to be a mere fable, a chimaera.

He was afraid lest King Iobates should imagine that he had fled from the chimaera.