How To Use Chimaera In A Sentence
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The Greek fire-dragon the Chimaera was slain at her lair but – being immortal – her blazing breath lived on.
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Briareus, and the beast of Lerna hissing horribly, and the Chimaera armed with flame, Gorgons and Harpies, and the body of the triform shade.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Chimaeras, also called ratfish, rabbitfish, and ghostsharks, are perhaps the oldest and most enigmatic groups of fishes alive today.
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The group is divided into two very different subclasses, which separated very early on: the Elasmobranchii (sharks, skates and rays) and the Holocephali (the chimaeras, such as the ratfish and elephant fish).
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It has also misled him but too often into depicting a world of suicides, ignoring or overlooking a secret hobby, or passion, or chimaera which is the one thing that renders existence endurable to so many of the waifs and strays of life.
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
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Sharks and their relatives, the skates, rays and chimaeras, are cartilaginous fish (they contain no bones).
Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Great White Sharks
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Gilder McCarroll: April chose “chimaera” because the mythical creature, combining traits of a lion, a goat, and a snake or dragon, is frequently used by game designers.
Made in SA: Chimaeracon | Missions Unknown
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The feature was previously unknown in sharks and other chondrichthyans, an order of fish whose modern descendants include sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras.
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By this logic, identical twins are one person (soul-wise), genetic chimaeras are two people, and a set of siamese twins with one head and four legs is the same number of people as a set of siamese twins with two heads and two legs, which is pretty counterintuitive.
America's Deep, Dark Secret
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It would be as easy and as profitable a problem to solve the Rabelaisian riddle of the bombinating chimaera with its potential or hypothetical faculty of deriving sustenance from a course of diet on second intentions, as to read the riddle of Shakespeare's design in the procreation of this yet more mysterious and magnificent monster of a play.
A Study of Shakespeare
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The chimaeran hyoid is, it turns out, quite happy supporting the operculum and has no interest in the palatoquadrate.
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A quite different way of creating a chimaera is to fuse two early mouse embryos.
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In a mere 18 hours they transformed a TVR Chimaera (interesting choice since a chimaera is a mythological creature composed of parts of a number of animals) into the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust pictured above.
Autoblog
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Robertson, E. Formation of germ-line chimaeras from embryo-derived teratocarcinoma cell lines.
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information
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The term chimaera refers to an organism a mosaic, has more than one cell type.
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It is, one might say, a necessary monster, not some ephemeral and casual creature like the chimaera or the catoblepas.
Archive 2008-12-01
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Like those distant relatives, chimaeras have skeletons of cartilage, not bone.
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In the living chimaeras, Callorhinchus and Chimaera, the authors were able to show the persisting boundaries between the individual teeth.
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Chimaeras, also called ratfish, rabbitfish, and ghostsharks, are perhaps the oldest and most enigmatic groups of fishes alive today.
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˜A man is an animal™, in which the composition involved is a being in the absolute sense, it follows ˜Therefore a man is™, but from ˜A chimaera is a non-being™, in which the composition is a being in a certain sense only, it does not follow
Peter of Spain
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A lot of skates and rays and the chimaeras are not as charismatic as white sharks or whale sharks or a manta ray, but these things are probably taken in far greater numbers in terms of by-catch.
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The dilemma for most eurosceptics who oppose British integration into a EU superstate — that political chimaera which is finally being brought into being by the EU constitutional treaty — has always been the assumption that EU membership is a take-it-or-leave-it deal.
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