What is the meaning of Chimera?

Alternative letter-case form of Chimera, a supposed monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or serpent, killed by the hero Bellerophon.

Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.

A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.

Anything composed of very disparate parts.

A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.

An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.

Alternative form of 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.

Synonym of bogeyman: any terrifying thing, especially as an unreal, imagined threat.

chimera

chimaera, a kind of shark of the genus Chimaera

chimera (artistic representation of the Chimera, a mythological monster)

caprice, fancy, whim

delusion, figment of one's imagination, invention, phantom

chimera (organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes)

chimaera, chimera, rabbitfish, ratfish (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)

Synonym of grymas

Source: wiktionary.org