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Definitions of chimaera in various dictionaries:
noun - (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail
noun - a grotesque product of the imagination
noun - a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail
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| (in Greek mythology) a fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. |
| A deep-sea cartilaginous fish of the family Chimaeridae, having a smooth-skinned tapering body and a whiplike tail. |
| Genetics Variant of chimera. |
| smooth-skinned deep-sea fish with a tapering body and long threadlike tail |
| a grotesque product of the imagination |
| (Greek mythology) fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail daughter of Typhon |
| A thing which is hoped for but is illusory or impossible to achieve. |
| An organism containing a mixture of genetically different tissues, formed by processes such as fusion of early embryos, grafting, or mutation. |
| A cartilaginous marine fish with a long tail, an erect spine before the first dorsal fin, and typically a forward projection from the snout. |
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Chimaeras the order Chimaeriformes, known informally as ghost sharks, rat fish (not to be confused with the rattails), spookfish (not to be confused with the true spookfish of the family Opisthoproctidae), or rabbit fish (not to be confused with the family Siganidae). * At one time, a "diverse and abundant" group (based on the fossil record), their closest living relatives are sharks, though in evolutionary terms, they branched off from sharks nearly 400 million years ago and have remained isolated ever since. Today, they are largely confined to deep water. |