As nouns the difference between chimera and chimer
is that chimera is chimera, or any fantastic creature with parts from different animals while chimer is a bell that chimes.
As a proper noun Chimera
is one of the many fantastical offspring of Typhon and Echidna, a multi-headed monster represented as vomiting flames. It had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and a dragon for a tail. Killed by the hero Bellerophon in Lycea.
chimera
Alternative forms
* chimaera
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Noun
(
en noun)
(mythology) Chimera, or any fantastic creature with parts from different animals
A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author
(genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two zygotes
(architecture) A grotesque, like a gargoyle but without a spout for rainwater
(usually chimaera ) 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
Synonyms
* (fish) ghost shark, ratfish, rabbitfish
Derived terms
* chimeral
* chimeric
* chimerism
* tetragametic chimera
* Chimera: the name of one of the ships of
See also
* Chimaera
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chimer
English
Noun
(
en noun)
A bell that chimes
A person who rings chimes on bells
Quotations
*2001 J. Robert Wright - Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue
*:The venerable Dr. George W. Warren, who had recently retired, was “honorary organist,” and Alfred Toulmin continued as harpist and bell chimer , a post he had held for 30 years.
*2004 Emma Wolf - Other Things Being Equal
*:She brushed a few drops from her lashes as the sweet little chimer rang out ten bells;
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