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词汇 chimera
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释义 chimera
noun[ C ]
uk /kaɪˈmɪə.rə/ us /kaɪˈmer.ə, kaɪˈmɪr.ə/

chimeranoun[C] (MIXTURE)


(alsoChimera)
in Greek mythology(= ancient stories), a creature with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a snake's tail:
He built a clay model of the mythological Greek Chimera, part lion, part goat and part serpent.
 
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biology specialized
an organism that contains cells or tissues from two or more different species or from two or more genetically different living things: 嵌合体
The clinic has created human-pig chimeras by adding human stem cells to pig fetuses.
Related word
chimerism
literary
something made up of parts of things that are very different from each other:
The composer described the project as "a chimera, a cobbled-together creature."
The bestiary of mythological creatures includes basilisk, chimera, and sphinx.
Animal chimeras have been made for years in the study of developmental biology.
This is a brilliant chimera of a novel that combines the dark mythology of fantasy with the delicious social comedy of Jane Austen.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Mythological & legendary characters
Abominable Snowman
Anancy
Andromeda
Ares
basilisk
genie
hellhound
Hera
Hermes
Janus
jinn
siren
sprite
the sandman
unicorn
vamp
Venus
Vesta
Victoria
Zeus

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Mythology: Greek & Roman myth
Genetics
Variety and mixtures

chimeranoun[C] (UNLIKELY HOPE)


formal or literary
a hope or dream that is very unlikely ever to come true: 幻想;妄想,空想
Is the ideal of banishing hunger throughout the world just a chimera?在全世界消除饥饿的理想是否只是痴心妄想?
Why do people chase the chimera of fame?
Synonyms
a figment of someone's imagination
illusion
mirageliterary
He called the report "a chimera of optimistic assumptions and pie-in-the-sky projections".
The supposed low cost of the system is something of a chimera.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hoping and hopefulness
appealingly
beyond someone's expectations
boosterish
boosterism
bright spot
fancy
hopeful
hopefully
hopefulness
ill
it's an ill wind (that blows nobody any good)idiom
la-la land
over-optimistic
over-optimistically
pin your hopes on something/someoneidiom
pious
pipe dream
please Godidiom
positively
wing

Related word


chimerical

Examples of chimera


chimera
One of those hurdles, according to some stem cell scientists, is research involving the creation of part-human chimeras.
Successful rescue of microsurgically produced homozygous uniparental mouse embryos via production of aggregation chimeras.
The gender chimeras were made by joining male half-faces to female half-faces ; subjects judged which face looked more feminine.
The age chimeras were made by joining older half-faces to younger half-faces ; subjects judged which face looked younger.
With these limitations in mind, it becomes important to perform a careful biochemical characterization of any mutants or chimeras used in structural analyses.
Restricted distribution of tetraploid cells in mouse tetraploiddiploid chimeras.
Nevertheless, stimuli which use happy-neutral or sad-neutral chimeras would help disentangle any effects of mood-congruent responding and spatial bias.
In order to evaluate the effect of the affective valence presented in the chimeric stimuli, we added a set of chimeras which presented a negative emotion, namely, anger.
They want ownership of the patent so that they can stop anyone else from making chimeras, even ones useful to research, because they consider such organisms to be unnatural abominations.
Insights into development and genetics from mouse chimeras.
Production of somatic and germline chimeras in the chicken by transfer of early blastodermal cells.
The primary aim of the current study was to examine whether schizophrenia patients' response to emotion chimeras is affected by the valence of the emotion presented.
The chimeras were arranged so that the queried trait was on the top for half of the trials and on the bottom for half of the trials.
Production of sheep-goat chimeras by inner cell mass transplantation.
Certainly a mechanism for regulating fetal size must exist because aggregation chimeras are not abnormally large at birth despite their origin from several complete preimplantation conceptuses.
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