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Chimaera

name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Chimera. alt-of, alternative, dated

    "CHIMÆRA, in geography, a port town of Turky in Europe, ſituated at the entrance of the gulph of Venice, in the province of Epirus, about thirty-two miles north of the city Corfu, near which are the mountains of Chimæra, which divide Epirus from Theſſaly..."

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of chimera. alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail wordnet
  3. 3
    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
  4. 4
    a grotesque product of the imagination wordnet
  5. 5
    (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

As a mythological beast, a variant of earlier Chimera under influence from Latin Chimaera. As a placename, directly from Latin Chimaera.

Etymology 2

A variant of chimera under influence from Latin Chimaera.

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