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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
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Alternative letter-case form of Chimera (a flame-spewing monster often represented as having two heads, one of a goat and the other of a lion; the body of a goat; and a serpent as a tail).
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Any fantastic creature with parts from different animals.
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Anything composed of very disparate parts.
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The car which he built himself was a real chimera: half Volkswagen and half Porsche.
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A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
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A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.
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An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.
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Usually chimaera: 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.