chimera
noun
Often Chimera a fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
chimeras
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pluralof chimera.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The two most advanced types of protein degraders are known as Protacs, or proteolysis targeting chimeras, and molecular glue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
This approach, which involves generating only skin tissue, could help avoid ethical concerns about using human-animal chimeras to produce organs for medical use.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024
These include naive cells, which act like cells from a preimplantation embryo and are more readily incorporated, and primed pluripotent stem cells, which act like postimplantation cells and can’t be incorporated into chimeras at all.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 10, 2023
Assemblages by Teresa Tolliver build fantastic chimeras from trophy-like lion sculptures cobbled together from scavenged elements — “Wild Things,” she calls them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2023
One clings then to chimeras, by which one can only be betrayed, and the entire hope—the entire possibility—of freedom disappears.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
