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Chimera Common

Chimera has 4 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

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).

Proper Noun
1

One of the many fantastical offspring of Typhon and Echidna, a multi-headed monster represented as vomiting flames. It had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and a dragon for a tail. Killed by the hero Bellerophon in Lycea.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
mythical monster imagination
Rhyming Words
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