0 in Greek mythology (= ancient stories), a creature with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a snake's tail:
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.
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.
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.
