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n. A deep-sea cartilaginous fish of the family Chimaeridae, having a smooth-skinned tapering body and a whiplike tail.

n. Genetics Variant of chimera.

n. Alternative spelling of chimera.

n. A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Chimaeriformes of the class Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.

n. A less usual spelling of chimera.

n. In zoology: A genus of fishes of strange aspect, representing the family

n. A genus of bivalve mollusks.

n. A genus of lepidopterous insects

n. A genus of fossil organisms of uncertain character.

n. Same as chimere.

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

n. a grotesque product of the imagination

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

"˜A man is an animal™, in which the composition involved is a being in the absolute sense, it follows ˜Therefore a man is™, but from ˜A chimaera is a non-being™, in which the composition is a being in a certain sense only, it does not follow"

mythical monster    mythical creature    imagery    imagination    mental imagery   

gastrula    manticora    merfolk    cautery    chimera