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chimera
English
Etymology
From Middle English chimere, from French chimère, from Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek ??????? (khímaira, “chimera; female goat”), from ??????? (khímaros, “male goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ei-. The Latin form has become more common from the 16th century.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k???m????/, /k?-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ka??mi???/, /ka??m???/
- Hyphenation: chi?me?ra
Noun
chimera (plural chimeras)
- (Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Chimera (a flame-spewing monster often represented as having two heads, one of a goat and the other of a lion; the body of a goat; and a serpent as a tail).
- (mythology) Any fantastic creature with parts from different animals.
- Anything composed of very disparate parts.
- A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
- 1818, anonymous [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, ?OCLC; republished as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus […] In Two Volumes, volume I, new (2nd) edition, London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane, 1823, ?OCLC, page 71:
- It was very different, when the masters of the science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.
- 1818, anonymous [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, ?OCLC; republished as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus […] In Two Volumes, volume I, new (2nd) edition, London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane, 1823, ?OCLC, page 71:
- (architecture) A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.
- (genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.
- 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.
Alternative forms
- chimaera
- chimæra
Synonyms
- (fish): ghost shark, rabbitfish, ratfish
- (anything composed of very disparate parts): motley crew
Antonyms
- (anything composed of very disparate parts): monolith
Derived terms
Related terms
- Chimaera
- chimere
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Glossary of architecture
References
Further reading
- chimera (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- chimera (genetics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Chimaera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (fish)
- chimera (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- haremic
Italian
Etymology
From Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek ??????? (Khímaira).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ki?me.ra/
Noun
chimera f (plural chimere)
- chimera
- chimera, a kind of shark of the genus Chimaera
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hybrid
English
Etymology
Known in English since 1601, but rare before c.1850. From Latin hybrida, a variant of hibrida (“a mongrel; specifically, offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?'br?d, IPA(key): /?ha?.b??d/
Noun
hybrid (plural hybrids)
- (biology) Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.
- Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
- (linguistics) A word whose elements are derived from different languages.
- A hybrid vehicle (especially a car), one that runs on both fuel (gasoline/diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun).
- (cycling) A bicycle that is a compromise between a road bike and a mountain bike.
- (golf) A golf club that combines the characteristics of an iron and a wood.
- An electronic circuit constructed of individual devices bonded to a substrate or PCB.
- A computer that is part analog computer and part digital computer.
Synonyms
- (biology): bastard, crossbred/crossbreed/cross-breed, mixling
Translations
Adjective
hybrid (comparative more hybrid, superlative most hybrid)
- Consisting of diverse 'hybridized' components.
Translations
Related terms
See also
- transgenic
- cultivar
References
- hybrid, page 216, chapter: A Miscegenation Vocabulary in Interracialism, Terms from the Oxford English Dictionary, book: Black White Intermarriage in American History, Literature and Law, Edited by Werner Sollor, Oxford University Press, 2000 [1]
- hybrid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- hybrid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- hybrid at OneLook Dictionary Search
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin hibrida
Noun
hybrid m (definite singular hybriden, indefinite plural hybrider, definite plural hybridene)
- a hybrid
References
- “hybrid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin hibrida
Noun
hybrid m (definite singular hybriden, indefinite plural hybridar, definite plural hybridane)
- a hybrid
References
- “hybrid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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