1) Amstrad CPC game 2) Chimaera 3) Commodore 64 game 4) Corinthian mythology 5) Daughter of Typhon 6) Delusion 7) Fabulous beast 8) Fantasy short story 9) Female supervillain 10) Fire-breather of myth 11) Fire-breathing Greek monster 12) Fire-breathing monster 13) Foolish fancy 14) French word used in English
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1) Beast 2) Chimaera 3) Dream 4) Will o `the wisp
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an individual composed of two or more genetically different tissues, most commonly as a result of a graft and sometimes within the individual, by mutations and irregularities that occur during cell division.
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• (n.) A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author. • (n.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
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Decorative motif, seen in the 18th and 19th centuries, which originated in Classical mythology. It combines the features of a winged goat or lion with a serpent's tail.
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(from the article `Chimera`) Chimera, or chimère, in architecture, is a term loosely used for any grotesque, fantastic, or imaginary beast used in decoration.
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An animal formed from the fusion of two fertilised eggs. As a result, they have two different types of DNA. Tortoiseshell males are sometimes Chimeras.
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a fire-breathing, winged beast with three heads
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An individual, organ, or part of an organism, consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution. The word comes from Greek mythology, where it described a fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
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(pronounced ki-MEER-eh) A chimera is a fossil that is composed of more than one species. Chimeras were named for a mythological, fire-breathing monster that had a lions' head, a goat's body, and a snake's tail.
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<cell biology> Organism composed of two genetically distinct types of cells. Can be formed by the fusion of two early blastula stage embryos or by the reconstitution of the bone marrow in an irradiated recipient or by somatic segregation. ... (05 Jan 1998) ...
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(ki-mēr´ә) an organism whose body contains different cell populations derived from different zygotes of the same or different species, occurring spontaneously or produced artificially. a substance created from proteins or genes of two species, as by genetic engineering. adj., chimer´ic, adj. ...
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An organism, tissue or recombinant DNA molecule which is composed of genes from more than one organism.
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Decorative motif, seen in the 18th and 19th centuries, which originated in Classical mythology. It combines the features of a winged goat or lion with a serpent's tail.
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Chime'ra noun ;
plural Chimeras . [ Latin
chimaera a chimera (in sense 1), Greek ... a she-goat, a chimera, from ... he-goat; confer Icelandic
qymbr a yearling ewe.]
1. (Myth.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the bod...
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Chimera had the head of a lion, the body of a goat and a snake's tail
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Chimera: In medicine, a person composed of two genetically distinct types of cells. Human chimeras were first discovered with the advent of blood typing when it was found that some people had more than one blood type. Most of them proved to be 'blood chimeras' -- non-identical twins who shared a blood supply in the uterus. Those who were not twins ...
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[Frankenstein] an impossible or foolish fancy.
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a mythical monster that breathes fire from its lion's head with a goat's body and serpent's tail.
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chimaera noun a grotesque product of the imagination
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(biology) In biology, an organism composed of tissues that are genetically different. Chimeras can develop naturally if a mutation occurs in a cell of a developing embryo, but are more commonly produced artificially by implanting cells from one organism into the embryo of another. In the conte...
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(mythology) In Greek mythology, a fire-breathing animal with a lion's head and foreparts, a goat's middle, a dragon's rear, and a tail in the form of a snake; hence any apparent hybrid of two or more creatures. The chimera was killed by the hero Bellerophon on the winged ho...
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A single organism composed of cells from different zygotes. This can result in male and female organs, two blood types, or subtle variations in form.
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A single organism composed of cells from different zygotes. This can result in male and female organs, two blood types, or subtle variations in form.
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(often cap.) a mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. · any similarly grotesque monster having disparate parts, esp. as depicted in decorative art. · a horrible or unreal creature of the imagination; a vain or idle fancy: He is far different from the chimera y...
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