Meaning

1 senses
  1. 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

    химераximera

    химераxymera

More definitions
  • a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail
  • a grotesque product of the imagination
  • (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon

Examples

1 sentences
  1. The foreground of the scene had grown funereally dark, and near objects put on the hues and shapes of chimaeras.

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Translations

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Origin

A variant of chimera under influence from Latin Chimaera.

A variant of chimera under influence from Latin Chimaera.

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Forms

plural: chimaeras

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a grotesque product of the imagination: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

Word family

1 related words
Derivedchimaeroid

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
chimaera — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto