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
Then there are the men who pursue more fanciful chimeras, the imagi-makers whose visions helped to give L.A. its reputation as a place where quirky notions can find fertile purchase.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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 report also noted that scientists at the WIV have engineered "chimeras", or combinations of coronaviruses, and used reverse genetic cloning techniques that could hide intentional changes.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2023
During the intervening period I had no time to nurse chimeras; and I believe I was as active and gay as anybody—Adèle excepted.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
