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Definition of Chimaera
1. 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.
Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Generic synonyms: Mythical Creature, Mythical Monster
Derivative terms: Chimeral, Chimerical
2. Noun. A grotesque product of the imagination.
Generic synonyms: Imagery, Imagination, Imaging, Mental Imagery
Derivative terms: Chimeral, Chimeric, Chimerical
3. Noun. A deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail.
Group relationships: Genus Chimaera
Specialized synonyms: Chimaera Monstrosa, Rabbitfish
Definition of Chimaera
1. Proper noun. (Greek mythology) Fantastical monster in Lycea with the head of a lion, goat and serpent which vomited fire. Killed by the hero Bellerophon. ¹
2. Noun. (alternative spelling of chimera) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chimaera
1. a marine fish [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chimaera
Literary usage of Chimaera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chimæroid Fishes and Their Development by Bashford Dean (1906)
"VAILLANT, L. "Travailleur" finds young Chimaera (130 mm. ... 343, PI. XL, figs.
20-22; PI. XL c, figs. 17, 18. Reference to Chimaera ..."
2. Studies in Archaic Corinthian Vase Painting by Patricia Lawrence, Darrell Arlynn Amyx (1996)
"The question of the Carrousel Painter also has had to be reconsidered, now that
his little animal-frieze plates seem to be no earlier than the Chimaera ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... of him who rear'd 400 The monstrous, fell Chimaera, plague to man. And Ajax,
he of Oileus, leapt forth, On Cleobulus, where amid the throng He stumbled ..."
4. Essays by Theophilus Parsons (1845)
"... and opens a new Hippocrene, and again Minerva tames his fire, and gives him
to the warrior who is called to do battle with the monster Chimaera. ..."
5. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Classical, Mediæval, Legendary; Famous by William Shepard Walsh (1915)
"Here Bellerophon captured him and tamed him (PINDAR, Olympia, xiii, 63), using
him thereafter in all his exploits, including the conquest of the Chimaera ..."
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