Definitions for chimeras

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chimeras chi·me·ra

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

IPA: /kɪˈmɪər ə, kaɪ-/

Chimeras is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 534 anagrams from letters in chimeras (acehimrs).

Definitions for chimeras

noun

1. (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.
2. any similarly grotesque monster having disparate parts, especially as depicted in decorative art.
3. a horrible or unreal creature of the imagination; a vain or idle fancy:
4. 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 chimeras

1350-1400; Middle English chimera Latin chimaera Greek chímaira she-goat; akin to Old Norse gymbr, English gimmer ewe-lamb one year (i.e., one winter) old, Latin hiems winter (see Examples for chimeras

Was it only a chimera of my unbalanced imagination—or was it actual fact?

After the war, chimera was edited by poet Barbara Howes and Ximena de Angulo.

Do not delude me with a chimera, and above all do not tempt me to sacrifice my honour to it.

A peasant war could at the moment be only a chimera, impossible of realization.

In the Iliad, a chimera is a grotesque animal jumble, “lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle.”

He can not easily believe it to be simply a chimera of an overwrought brain.

The chimera and other animal monsters occur only as figments of the mind.

For it was evident that to them, this chimera was still real.

She seemed unable to describe the chimera of her imagination.

Ah, that woman in the mask, that chimera of a night, that fancy of an hour!