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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
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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
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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).
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Any fantastic creature with parts from different animals.
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Anything composed of very disparate parts.
"The car which he built himself was a real chimera: half Volkswagen and half Porsche."
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A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
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