| 单词 | chimera |
| 释义 | chimera (also chimaera) n. 1. (in Greek mythology) a fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. 2. a fantastic or grotesque product of the imagination; a bogey. 3. any fabulous beast with parts taken from various animals. 4. Biol. a an organism containing genetically different tissues, formed by grafting, mutation, etc. b a nucleic acid formed by laboratory manipulation. 5. any cartilaginous fish of the family Chimaeridae, usu. having a long tapering caudal fin. Derivatives chimeric adj. chimerical adj. chimerically adv. Etymology: L f. Gk khimaira she-goat, chimera |
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