Chimeric vs Chimerical - What's the difference?
chimeric | chimerical |
Like a chimera.
Imaginary, fanciful.
(genetics) Pertaining to a genetic chimera.
* 1997 , Nicholas A. Wright, "Stem cell repertoire in the intestine" in
* 2008 , David Batty, The Guardian , 19 May 2008:
Of or pertaining to a chimera.
Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
* 1877 ,
Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
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
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Alternative forms
* chimaeric *Adjective
(en adjective)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.
- Chimeric embryos are made by injecting cells or genetic material from one species into the embryo of another.
chimerical
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Adjective
(en adjective)- "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