chimaera

Meanings

Plural: chimaeras

Noun

• (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon
• a grotesque product of the imagination
• a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail
• Alternative spelling of chimera.
• 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

chimera, Chimera, ghost shark