chimaera

English Thesaurus

1. a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	holocephalan, holocephalian,
definition	:	fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	chimaera monstrosa, rabbitfish,
definition	:	large European chimaera (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus chimaera,
definition	:	type genus of the Chimaeridae (noun.animal)

2. a grotesque product of the imagination (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	imagery, imagination, imaging, mental imagery,
definition	:	the ability to form mental images of things or events (noun.cognition)

3. (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon (noun.person)

hypernym	:	mythical creature, mythical monster,
definition	:	a monster renowned in folklore and myth (noun.person)

domain category	:	greek mythology,
definition	:	the mythology of the ancient Greeks (noun.group)

4. a grotesque product of the imagination (noun.cognition)

derivation	:	chimerical,
definition	:	produced by a wildly fanciful imagination (adj.all)

derivation	:	chimeral, chimeric, chimerical, chimeral, chimeric, chimerical,
definition	:	being or relating to or like a chimera (adj.pert)

derivation	:	chimerical,
definition	:	produced by a wildly fanciful imagination (adj.all)

derivation	:	chimeral, chimeric, chimerical, chimeral, chimeric, chimerical,
definition	:	being or relating to or like a chimera (adj.pert)