Gargoyle vs Chimera - What's the difference?
gargoyle | chimera |
A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.
* 1906 , , The Trampling of the Lilies? , page 110
Any decorative carved grotesque figure on a building.
A fictional winged monster.
* 2005 , Mel Odom, The Secret Explodes? , page 200
(slang, pejorative) An ugly woman.
(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
As nouns the difference between gargoyle and chimera
is that gargoyle is a carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters while chimera is chimera, or any fantastic creature with parts from different animals.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.gargoyle
English
(wikipedia gargoyle)Noun
(en noun)- From between set teeth came now a flow of oaths and imprecations as steady as the flow of water from the gargoyle overhead.
- Almost immediately one of the gargoyles' swept down from the sky and attacked him. The ' gargoyle' s momentum drove them both over the side.
