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Chimaera Common

Chimaera has 5 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

(Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon

2

a grotesque product of the imagination

3

a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail

4

Alternative spelling of chimera

Proper Noun
1

One of the many fantastical offspring (fe. Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra) of Typhon and Echidna, a multi-headed monster often represented as vomiting flames with the head of a lion, the body (and additional head) of a goat, and a serpent for a tail. Killed by the hero Bellerophon in Lycea.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
mythical monster imagination holocephalan
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
rabbitfish
Rhyming Words
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