chimaera

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> making conjoined twins of old and young mice so they shared blood and organsYou say conjoined twins, I say chimaera.

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(Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon

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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

noun

a grotesque product of the imagination

noun

a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for chimaera.

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

noun

a grotesque product of the imagination

noun

a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail

Example sentences

> making conjoined twins of old and young mice so they shared blood and organsYou say conjoined twins, I say chimaera.

This one seems like a weird chimaera, sitting between the enterprise world and the consumer world.

I don't know, but chimaera are relatively common and relatively well known species for its habitat.

Whatabout identical twins, chimaera, ...Also, in practice you'd be doing partial string matches presumably.

The chimaera infected human airway cells — proving that the surface protein of SHC014 has the necessary structure to bind to a key receptor on the cells and to infect them.

Per National Geographic: "The video is the first time the pointy-nosed blue chimaera [Hydrolagus trolli species] has been seen alive in its natural habitat.