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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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
While reproduction in these colonies does happen the regular way, crazy ant males simultaneously exhibit these strange reproductive capabilities as well, making them chimeras.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2023
But the images broke up of their own accord, weightless chimeras routed by a numbness that ran through him unchallenged.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
