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/tʃˈɪmeəɹɐ/
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NOUN
- (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon
How To Use Chimaera In A Sentence
- A quite different way of creating a chimaera is to fuse two early mouse embryos.
- The dilemma for most eurosceptics who oppose British integration into a EU superstate — that political chimaera which is finally being brought into being by the EU constitutional treaty — has always been the assumption that EU membership is a take-it-or-leave-it deal. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- A lot of skates and rays and the chimaeras are not as charismatic as white sharks or whale sharks or a manta ray, but these things are probably taken in far greater numbers in terms of by-catch.
- ˜A man is an animal™, in which the composition involved is a being in the absolute sense, it follows ˜Therefore a man is™, but from ˜A chimaera is a non-being™, in which the composition is a being in a certain sense only, it does not follow Peter of Spain
- Chimaeras, also called ratfish, rabbitfish, and ghostsharks, are perhaps the oldest and most enigmatic groups of fishes alive today. WN.com - Articles related to Australia mining firm strikes gold in RP
- In the living chimaeras, Callorhinchus and Chimaera, the authors were able to show the persisting boundaries between the individual teeth.
- Like those distant relatives, chimaeras have skeletons of cartilage, not bone.
- It is, one might say, a necessary monster, not some ephemeral and casual creature like the chimaera or the catoblepas. Archive 2008-12-01
- The term chimaera refers to an organism a mosaic, has more than one cell type.
- Robertson, E. Formation of germ-line chimaeras from embryo-derived teratocarcinoma cell lines. The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information