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chimaera::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | chimera |
| Type of | mythical creature, mythical monster |
chimaera::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | chimera |
| Type of | imagery, imagination, imaging, mental imagery |
chimaera::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | holocephalan, holocephalian |
| Has types | chimaera monstrosa, rabbitfish |
Examples of chimaera
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Haraway celebrates the cyborg as the ultimate postmodern boundary-defying chimaera.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It's all part of the price of living in the poorly conceived chimaera that is the contemporary EU.
From the economist.com
Fossils of Dermotherium chimaera come from Phetchaburi Province, further to the north in Thailand.
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Its inhabitants, the chimaera, are locked in a centuries-old battle with their deadly enemies, the seraphims.
From the nzherald.co.nz
This strain is a chimaera and appears to be a hybrid of two different E. coli types which are nasty themselves.
From the scoop.co.nz
Mimicking these intergenic recombination events creates chimaera with phenotypes that differ from those of their parental genes.
From the nature.com
In addition, a single isolated upper molar from the Early Oligocene of Pakistan has been tentatively assigned to D. chimaera.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The holotype of Dermotherium chimaera is a lower jaw fragment in which remnants of the deciduous third lower premolar are visible.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Compared with the traditional image of a cyborg chimaera, such software hybrids may be more adaptable, perhaps even able to merge several kinds of minds.
From the newscientist.com
- 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
- Chimera: a grotesque product of the imagination
- A deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail
- 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" ...
- 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 emerged from the ...
- Chimaera is a genus of fish in the Chimaeridae family. It contains the following species: * Chimaera argiloba Last, White & Pogonoski, 2008. Whitefin chimaera * Chimaera bahamaensis Kemper, Ebert, Didier & Compagno, 2010. n* Chimaera cubana Howell-Rivero, 1936. ...
- 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.
- Chimaera is the fourth and final book in Ian Irvine's The Well of Echoes quartet.
- One of several species of fish of the sub-class Holocephali. Also known as ghost sharks
