CHIMERA
\ka͡ɪmˈi͡əɹə], \kaɪmˈiəɹə], \k_aɪ_m_ˈiə_ɹ_ə]\
Definitions of CHIMERA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
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A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.
By Oddity Software
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A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
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A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A fabulous, fire-spouting monster, with a lion's head, a serpent's tail, and a goat's body: any idle or wild fancy.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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