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Chimaera

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. Synonym: Chimera.

A grotesque product of the imagination. Synonym: chimera.

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

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Chimaera monstrosa

genus Chimaera

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"Chimaera" Quotes from Famous Books

... importance whatever. It is generally also implied, for reasons which remain obscure, that what can have no importance for us cannot be real, and that therefore matter, if it is not composed of minds or of mental ideas, is impossible and a mere chimaera. ...

— The Problems of Philosophy • Bertrand Russell

... wretch indeed, who could not afford one warm dish for the wife of his bosom. But you timorous virgins form a dreadful chimaera of a husband, as of a creature contrary to that soft, humble, pliant, easy thing, a lover; so guess at plagues in matrimony, in opposition to the pleasures of courtship. Alas! courtship to marriage, is but as the music in the play-house, until the curtain's ...

— The Comedies of William Congreve - Volume 1 [of 2] • William Congreve

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