A plant or organism with tissues from at least two genetically distinct parents. Sometimes this happens with Cannabis plants and oftentimes the combined features of chimeras can be visible to the naked eye or be only be seen with the use of a microscope.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
chimera (noun)1.
a) capitalized a fire-breathing she-monster in Greek mythology having a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail
b) an imaginary monster compounded of incongruous parts
2.
an illusion or fabrication of the mind , especially an unrealizable dream - a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayer John Donne
3.
an individual, organ, or part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
chimera (noun)a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
SYNONYMS:
chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, figment, hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm ( fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, visionRELATED WORDS:
ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wisp; brainchild, idea; concoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, invention; envisaging, imaging, visualization; cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopia; daymare, nightmareNEAR ANTONYMS:
actuality, fact, realityChimera (Wikipedia)
Chimera, Chimaera, or Chimaira (Greek for "she-goat") originally referred to:
- Chimera (mythology), a fire-breathing monster of ancient Lycia said to combine parts from multiple animals
- Mount Chimaera, a fire-spewing region of Lycia or Cilicia typically considered the inspiration for the myth
Chimera, chimera, chimère, Chimaira, etc. may also refer to:
Chimera (Wiktionary)
English
Alternative forms
- chimaera, chimæra (archaic)
- chimere, chymera, chemera, chymæra (obsolete)
Etymology
Variant of Middle English chimere, chymere, & chymera under renewed Latin influence from the 16th century, from French chimère, from Latin Chimaera, from Ancient Greek Χίμαιρα (Khímaira, “fire-breathing mythological monster, fire-spewing Lycian or Cilician mountain”), from χίμαιρα (
... Read MoreMixture, Combination, Amalgamation, Synthesis, Integration, Union, Alloy, Compound, Mix, Concoction
