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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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noun
  1. 1

    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

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.

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