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noun. An organism, organ, or part consisting of two or more tissues of different genetic composition, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.

noun. A substance, such as an antibody, created from the proteins or genes of two different species.

noun. An individual who has received a transplant of genetically and immunologically different tissue.

noun. A fanciful mental illusion or fabrication.

noun. Same as chimere.

noun. In Greek myth, a fire-breathing monster, the fore part of whose body, according to the Iliad, was that of a lion, the middle that of a goat, and the hinder that of a dragon, or which, according to Hesiod, had three heads, one of each of these animals: supposed by the ancients to represent a volcanic mountain of that name in Lycia, the top of which was said to be the resort of lions, the middle that of goats, and the foot that of serpents.

noun. Hence— In ornamental art, etc., a fantastic assemblage of animal forms so combined as to produce a single complete but unnatural design.

noun. An absurd or impossible creature of the imagination; a vain or idle fancy; a fantastic conceit.

noun. A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.

noun. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination.

noun. Chimera, or any fabulous creature with parts from different animals.

noun. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.

noun. An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two zygotes.

noun. A gargoyle (fictional winged creature)

noun. A cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin.

noun. a grotesque product of the imagination

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

"Infallibility; Protestants devoting themselves to the dismal task of paring down the dimensions of this miracle, and reducing the credibility of that one -- as if any appreciable relief from the burden of faith could be so obtained; sentimental sceptics, who, after labouring to demolish what they call the chimera of superstition, fall to weeping as they remember they have now no lies to teach their children; democrats who are frightened at the rough voice of the people, and aristocrats flirting with democracy."

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