Usually means: Mythical creature with multiple forms.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word Chimaera:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. chimaera: Merriam-Webster
  2. Chimaera, chimaera: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Chimaera, chimaera: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chimaera: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Chimaera, chimaera: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chimaera, chimaera: Wordnik
  7. chimaera: Wiktionary
  8. chimaera: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. chimaera: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. chimaera: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Chimaera, chimaera: Dictionary.com
  12. Chimaera (Epirus), Chimaera (fish), Chimaera (genus), Chimaera: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Chimaera: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. chimaera: Rhymezone
  15. Chimaera: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. chimaera: FreeDictionary.org
  17. chimaera: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Chimaera: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. chimaera: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chimaera (fish), chimaera: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chimaera: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Chimaera (fish), chimaera: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chimaera: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chimaera: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (chimaera)

noun:  A cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin
noun:  (dated) Alternative form of Chimera [(Greek mythology) A supposed fire-breathing monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or snake, killed by the hero Bellerophon.]
noun:  Alternative spelling of chimera [(mythology, art) Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.]

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