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Chimaera

noun
1.
(Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon.  Synonym: Chimera.
2.
A grotesque product of the imagination.  Synonym: chimera.
3.
A deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail.



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"Chimaera" Quotes from Famous Books



... giants and slain dragons; and the younger ones, who had not yet met with such good fortune, thought it a shame to have lived so long without getting astride of a flying serpent or sticking their spears into a Chimaera, or at least thrusting their right arms down a monstrous lion's throat. There was a fair prospect that they would meet with plenty of such adventures before finding the Golden Fleece. As soon as they could furbish up their ...
— Myths and Legends of All Nations • Various
... might be better spoken of in a very large plural—is of course quite undeniable in itself. There are as many second intentions in the ordinary sense, apparently obvious in Gargantua and Pantagruel, as there can have been in the scholastic among the dietary of La Quinte, or of any possible Chimaera buzzing at greatest intensity in the extremest vacuum. On the other hand, some of us are haunted by the consideration, "Was there ever any human being more likely than Francois Rabelais to echo (with the slightest change) the words ascribed to Divinity in that famous ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury
... doors and in the porch, for some cunning workmen had wrought thereon Hercules slaying the great dragon of Lerna, and Iolaues standing with a torch to sear that which he cut with his knife. Also Bellerophon was to be seen on a horse with wings, slaying the Chimaera; and Pallas fighting against the Sons of Earth, with the thunderbolt of her father Zeus and the shield of the Gorgon head. And when they had made an end of seeing these things came the Queen Creuesa ...
— Stories from the Greek Tragedians • Alfred Church


Words linked to "Chimaera" :   mental imagery, holocephalan, mythical monster, rabbitfish, mythical creature, imagery, holocephalian, imagination, imaging, Greek mythology


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