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  1. (chimaera) Chimera: (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon
  2. (chimaera) chimera: a grotesque product of the imagination
  3. (chimaera) a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail
  4. Chimaeras are cartilaginous fish in the order Chimaeriformes, known informally as ghost sharks, ratfish (not to be confused with the rattails), spookfish (not to be confused with the "true" spookfish of the family Opisthoproctidae), or rabbitfishes (not to be confused with the "true" ...
  5. (Chimaera (Chaonia)) Himarë (also Himara, from Χειμάρρα, Himarra) is a bilingual town and region in southern Albania, part of the District of Vlorë. Apart from the town of Himara, the region consists of 7 other villages:Dhërmi, Pilur, Kudhës, Qeparo, Vuno, Ilias, and Palasë.
  6. (Chimaera (DNA)) Typically seen in non-human zoology (but also discovered to a rare extent in humans), a chimera is an animal that has two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells that originated in different zygotes involved with sexual reproduction; if the different cells ...
  7. (Chimaera (geography)) Mount Chimaera was a place or places in ancient Lycia, notable for volcanic phenomena and said by some ancient sources to be the origin of the myth of the Chimera.
  8. (Chimaera (Well of Echoes)) Chimaera is the fourth and final book in Ian Irvine's The Well of Echoes quartet.
  9. (Chimaera) One of several species of fish of the sub-class Holocephali. Also known as ghost sharks
  10. (Chimaera) Mythological creature; half eagle and half lion
  11. Chimaera (or ratfish) are cartilaginous fish that have compressed bodies and rodent-like teeth (hence their name). ...
  12. The chimaera was a monster composed of the head of a lion, the body of a goat and a serpant for a tail. Bellerophon was sent to slay it.
  13. A group of fishes with cartilaginous skeletons closely related to the Elasmobranchs (q.v.) which includes the elephant fish and the ghost sharks.
  14. Dreams or mental illusions