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Any of various deep-sea cartilaginous fishes of the order Chimaeriformes, having a large head and tapered body with a whiplike tail.
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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Same as chimere.
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A less usual spelling of chimera.
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In zoology: A genus of fishes of strange aspect, representing the family
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A genus of bivalve mollusks.
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A genus of lepidopterous insects
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A genus of fossil organisms of uncertain character.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Chimaeriformes of the class Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.
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(Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon
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a grotesque product of the imagination
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a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail
Word Usage
"˜A man is an animal™, in which the composition involved is a being in the absolute sense, it follows ˜Therefore a man is™, but from ˜A chimaera is a non-being™, in which the composition is a being in a certain sense only, it does not follow"