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chimeric 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. being or relating to or like a chimera; "his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush
  2. (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
  3. (chimera) a grotesque product of the imagination
  4. (Chimera (architecture)) Used in describing an architectural feature, chimera means a fantastic, mythical or grotesque figure used for decorative purposes. Chimera are often described as gargoyles. ...
  5. (Chimera (Aria album)) Chimera is Aria's eighth studio album, and the last to feature vocalist Valery Kipelov.
  6. (Chimera (band)) Chimera were a Northern Irish alternative band that saw brief, but notable fame in the mid-nineties. They have been frequently compared to the Sundays, Cocteau Twins and the Cranberries.
  7. (Chimera (CrossGen)) Chimera is an American comic book published by CrossGen Entertainment from March to July 2003. It is a mini-series that ran for four issues. Chimera is most notable for its artwork. ...
  8. (Chimera (Delerium)) Chimera is an album by Canadian industrial/electronic music group Delerium in 2003 (see 2003 in music).
  9. (Chimera (Dungeons & Dragons)) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the chimera (pronounced ky-MAEE-ruh, or ky-MAIR-ruh; rhymes with "care of") is a large magical beast that appears to be an amalgam of several different creatures. A chimera is usually chaotic evil in alignment.
  10. Like a chimera; Imaginary, fanciful; Pertaining to a genetic chimera
  11. (Chimera) A mythical monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon
  12. Chimera, or any fabulous creature with parts from different animals; A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author; An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two zygotes; A gargoyle (fictional winged creature); A ...
  13. (Chimera) A human embryo into which at least one cell of any non-human life form has been introduced, or an embryo consisting of cells from more than one human embryo, foetus or human being.
  14. (Chimera (pl. chimaera)) An organism that contains cells or tissues with a different genotype. These can be mutated cells of the host organism or cells from a different organism or species.
  15. (CHIMERA) an individual containing cells of two or more different tissues.
  16. (Chimera) an individual composed of cells from two different zygotes. In humans, blood group chimeras result from exchange of hematopoietic stem cells by dizygotic twins in utero; dispermic chimeras, which are very rare, result from fusion of two zygotes into one individual. ...
  17. (Chimera) An animal formed from two different animals, that is from two different embryonic sources. In mouse genetics, targeted mutations produced in embryonic stem cells are recovered by breeding chimeric mice resulting from the mixture of ES cells with a genetically-distinct blastocyst. ...
  18. (CHIMERA) An animal with characteristics of both genders (or in mythology, one that has the characteristics of different species such as a fire-breathing combination of snake, lion, and goat. ...
  19. (Chimera) A plant with several tissue sectors or layers differing in genetic or chromosomal constitution from the original plant.
  20. (Chimera) An animal composed of tissues of more than one genetic origin. This is usually accomplished by injecting cells from one animal into the egg of another. This can give rise to animals with different colors, etc., on parts of its body. ...
  21. (Chimera) Bioconstruct made by weapons engineers of the KHE combining optimal biological and mechanical attributes to form the ultimate killing machine. ...
  22. (Chimera) Imaginary beast or animal composed by putting different animals' parts together. Most well known examples are the Sphinx and the Griffin.
  23. (Chimera) In experimental embryology, the individual produced by grafting an embryonic part of one animal on to the embryo of another, either of the same or of another species. (SMD)
  24. (Chimera) In general, any unique monster of the wilderness. Usually created by a Reaver or some unspeakable crossbreeding. Pronounced KY-mer-ah. Compare to Kraken.
  25. (Chimera) Originally a fabled and frightening monster whose features resembled the corresponding parts of many different animals. Hence, an absurd or fantastic creature of the imagination; a frightful fancy; a visionary or impracticable idea.