chimera

noun

1. 1

   Alternative letter-case form of Chimera (a flame-spewing monster often represented as having two heads, one of a goat and the other of a lion; the body of a goat; and a serpent as a tail).

2. 2

   Any fantastic creature with parts from different animals.

3. 3

   Anything composed of very disparate parts.

   “The car which he built himself was a real chimera: half Volkswagen and half Porsche.”

4. 4

   A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.

5. 5

   A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.

6. 6

   An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.

7. 7

   Usually chimaera: a cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin.