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- DictionaryChi·me·ra/kīˈmirə/
noun
- 1. (in Greek mythology) a fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
- 2. a thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve: "the economic sovereignty you claim to defend is a chimera"
noun. , plural chi·me·ras. Often Chimera. Greek Mythology. a fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. any grotesque monster having disparate parts, as depicted or described in art, legend, fantasy fiction, video games, etc.
an organism that contains cells or tissues from two or more different species or from two or more genetically different living things: The clinic has created human-pig chimeras by adding human stem cells to pig fetuses. literary. something made up of parts of things that are very different from each other:
Mar 22, 2023 · Overview. The Chimera, one of the terrifying offspring of Typhoeus and Echidna, was a hybrid monster made up of the body parts of a lion, a goat, and a snake. Many sources claimed that it also breathed fire.
2 days ago · noun. (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon. synonyms: Chimaera.
Apr 1, 2024 · Chimera, in Greek mythology, a fire-breathing female monster resembling a lion in the forepart, a goat in the middle, and a dragon behind. She devastated Caria and Lycia until she was slain by Bellerophon .
Without equality, unity is a chimera. Synonyms: delusion , fantasy , dream anything created by taking parts or aspects of different kinds of things and combining them:
(formal) an impossible idea or hope. (biology) an organism (= a living thing) that contains a mixture of genetically different tissues. Word Origin. See chimera in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: chimera. Definition of chimera noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
