chimaera

Chi·mae·ra

C0295700 (kī-mîr′ə, kĭ-)n. Greek Mythology Variant of Chimera.

chi·mae·ra

C0295700 (kī-mîr′ə, kĭ-)n.1. Any of various deep-sea cartilaginous fishes of the order Chimaeriformes, having a large head and tapered body with a whiplike tail.2. Variant of chimera.

[New Latin Chimaera, type genus, from Latin chimaera, chimera; see chimera.]

chimaera

(kaɪˈmɪərə; kɪ-) n1. (Animals) any tapering smooth-skinned cartilaginous deep-sea fish of the subclass Holocephali (or Bradyodonti), esp any of the genus Chimaera. They have a skull in which the upper jaw is fused to the cranium. See also rabbitfish¹2. (Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth a variant spelling of chimera¹

chi•mae•ra

(kɪˈmɪər ə, kaɪ-)

n., pl. -ras. 1. any fish of the family Chimaeridae, the male of which has a spiny clasping organ over the mouth. 2. chimera. [1795–1805; see chimera]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Chimaera - (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of TyphonChimeraGreek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeksmythical creature, mythical monster - a monster renowned in folklore and myth
	2.	chimaera - a grotesque product of the imaginationchimeraimagery, imaging, mental imagery, imagination - the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"
	3.	chimaera - a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tailholocephalan, holocephalian - fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tailgenus Chimaera - type genus of the ChimaeridaeChimaera monstrosa, rabbitfish - large European chimaera

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chimaera

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chimaera

(kĭmēr`ə), cartilaginous marine fish, related to the sharks. Also called ratfishes, chimaeras are found in temperate oceans throughout the world, mostly in deep water. They have large heads, long, thin, ratlike tails, and large, fanlike pectoral fins. In many species there is a poison spine in front of the first dorsal fin. Their slippery skins are black, gray, or silver, often with stripes or spots. The largest reach a length of about 6 1-2 ft (2 m). Chimaeras resemble sharks in certain fundamental respects: They have cartilage skeletons, males have claspers for internal fertilization of females, and females lay eggs encased in leathery cases. However, they resemble the bony fishes in having the upper jaw fused to the skull, the gill slits opening into a single chamber, a bony covering, or operculum, over the gill slits, and separate anal and urogenital openings. A distinctive feature of chimaeras is the presence of extra claspers in the male, one in front of each pelvic fin and a prominent one on the forehead. The function of these appendages is not known, but they are thought to play a role in courtship. Chimaeras form the subclass Holocephali of the phylum ChordataChordata
, phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate animals.
..... Click the link for more information. , subphylum Vertebrata, class Chondrichthyes.

chimera

, chimaera1. Greek myth a fire-breathing monster with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a serpent 2. a fabulous beast made up of parts taken from various animals 3. Biology an organism, esp a cultivated plant, consisting of at least two genetically different kinds of tissue as a result of mutation, grafting, etc.

chimaera

chimera

Any individual organism or molecule derived from 2 or more species.

Embryology
An organism that results when an embryonic part of one organism is grafted onto another.
Genetics
An organism with 2 or more cell lines, genotypes or karyotypes descended from at least 2 zygotes. Chimeras are very rare, only occur in twins and result from chorionic vascular anastomoses, transplantations or double fertilisations and subsequent participation of both fertilised meiotic products in one developing embryo; all hermaphrodites should be karyotyped to evaluate possible chimerism.
Molecular biology
(1) An animal formed from two different embryonic sources. In mouse genetics, targeted mutations produced in embryonic stem cells are recovered by breeding chimeric mice, resulting from the mixture of embryonic stem cells with a genetically distinct blastocyst.
(2) A clone containing genomic DNA from nonadjacent genomic segments or cDNA from two different mRNAs.
Transplantation
The term chimera was once used for a person who had received transplanted tissue—e.g., bone marrow surviving in a recipient.

chimaera

(also called graft-hybrid) an organism, usually a cultivated plant, whose tissues are of more than one genetical type as a result of mutation or grafting.
a smooth-skinned cartilaginous deep-sea fish (‘king of the herrings’) of the subclass Holocephali, which were common in the Jurassic.
a DNA hybrid molecule: a composite DNA molecule produced by GENETIC ENGINEERING, made up of DNA fragments from more than one organism. It is named after the Chimaera of Greek mythology, a beast with the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the tail of a serpent.

Chimaera

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Synonyms for Chimaera

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

Synonyms

Chimera

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Greek mythology
mythical creature
mythical monster

noun a grotesque product of the imagination

Synonyms

chimera

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imagery
imaging
mental imagery
imagination

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

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holocephalan
holocephalian
genus Chimaera
Chimaera monstrosa
rabbitfish