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Chimeric vs Chimerical - What's the difference?

chimeric | chimerical |

As adjectives the difference between chimeric and chimerical

is that chimeric is like a chimera while chimerical is of or pertaining to a chimera.

chimeric

English

Alternative forms

* chimaeric *

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Like a chimera.
  • Imaginary, fanciful.
  • (genetics) Pertaining to a genetic chimera.
  • * 1997 , Nicholas A. Wright, "Stem cell repertoire in the intestine" in Stem cells (ISBN 9780125634557), ed. C. S. Potten, page 322:
  • Application of the technology for producing chimeric mice has given considerable insight into the way intestinal crypts are organized.
  • * 2008 , David Batty, The Guardian , 19 May 2008:
  • Chimeric embryos are made by injecting cells or genetic material from one species into the embryo of another.

    chimerical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a chimera.
  • Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
  • * 1877 ,
  • "Yes; I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical , are really extremely practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."
    a chimerical goal
  • Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
  • Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
  • Derived terms

    * chimerically