chimera

  • 91Chimera (Aria album) — Химера Studio album by Aria Released 2001 Genre Heavy me …

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  • 92chimera chimaera — noun (C) 1 an imaginary creature that breathes fire and has a lion s head, a goat s body, and a snake s tail 2 something, especially an idea or hope, that is not really possible and can never exist: trying to present that impossible chimera, a… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 93chimera — См. chimaera …

    Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • 94chimera — (ki me rah) A recombinant plasmid containing foreign DNA, which is used as a cloning vector in genetic engineering …

    Dictionary of microbiology

  • 95chimera — Organism composed of two genetically distinct types of cells. Can be formed by the fusion of two early blastula stage embryos or by the reconstitution of the bone marrow in an irradiated recipient, or by somatic segregation …

    Dictionary of molecular biology

  • 96Chimera — noun A mythical monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon …

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  • 97chimera — (or chimaera ) A wild fancy. In Greek mythology, a fire breathing monster with a lion s head, a goat s body, and a serpent s tail …

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  • 98chimera — Synonyms and related words: airy hope, airy nothing, apparition, autism, brainchild, bubble, daydream, deception, delirium, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, eidolon, false belief, fancy, fantasque,… …

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  • 99chimera — {{hw}}{{chimera}}{{/hw}}s. f. 1 Nella mitologia greco romana, mostro favoloso, con corpo e testa di leone, una seconda testa di capra sorgente dalla schiena e coda di serpente. 2 (fig.) Idea, fantasia inverosimile, speranza irrealizzabile; SIN.… …

    Enciclopedia di italiano

  • 100chimera — chi|me|ra [ kaı mırə, kı mırə ] noun count 1. ) FORMAL a plan or course of action that is not possible to achieve 2. ) a frightening imaginary creature in old stories. It has a lion s head, a goat s body, a long tail, and it breathes fire. ╾… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English