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Chimera vs Hybrid - What's the difference?

chimera | hybrid |

As nouns the difference between chimera and hybrid

is that chimera is chimera, or any fantastic creature with parts from different animals while hybrid is offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.

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.

As an adjective hybrid is

consisting of diverse 'hybridized' components.

chimera

English

(wikipedia chimera)

Alternative forms

* chimaera *

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 * ----

    hybrid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia hybrid)
  • (biology) Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.
  • Something of mixed origin or composition.
  • A word whose elements are derived from different languages.
  • Short for hybrid vehicle (especially a car), one that runs on both fuel (gasoline/diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun).
  • (golf) A golf club that combines the characteristics of an iron and a wood.

    • Synonyms

    * (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Consisting of diverse 'hybridized' components.

    • Related terms

    * hybrida * hybridise / hybridize * hybridism * hybridist * hybridity * hybrid car * hybrid computer * hybrid tea, hybrid tea rose

    See also

    * transgenic * cultivar

    References

    * hybrid, page 216, chapter: A Miscegenation Vocabulary in Interracialism, Terms from the Oxford English Dictionary, book: Black White Intermarriage in Americal History, Literature and Law, Edited by Werner Sollor, Oxford University Press, 2000 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tggfcZQyofAC&pg=PA216&dq=minton+warren+hybrida&client=firefox-a
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