Thesaurus / chimera
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
The piglets are chimeras—creatures with intermingled sets of genes, as if multiple entities were seamlessly mashed together.
For instance, some labs are attempting to create human-animal chimeras through experiments including mixing human cells into monkey embryos.
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Scientists now apply the term chimera to any single organism made of parts from two or more organisms with different genes.
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Physicists have proved most two-element hydrogen hybrids to be dead ends, but the new three-element blend marks a potentially significant advance into the world of complex chimera materials.
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Was it for some grandiose, impossible chimera, that he had taken men from quiet useful lives and the simple round of kindliness?
THE LIFE OF MAZZINIBOLTON KING
"With all the ills the flesh is heir to," true health is a chimera, an existing state unknown to man.
TYRANNY OF GODJOSEPH LEWIS
The Chimera was a fire-breathing monster, with the head of a lion, the tail of a dragon, and the body of a goat.
MILTON'S COMUSJOHN MILTON
This chimera was still dear to the hearts of scientific men.
CELEBRATED TRAVELS AND TRAVELLERSJULES VERNE
And, if you would pursue this chimera, it is not in a democracy that you are likely to surprise it.
AMERICAN SKETCHESCHARLES WHIBLEY
In striving after universal brotherhood in a literal sense, Freemasons are therefore pursuing a chimera.
SECRET SOCIETIES AND SUBVERSIVE MOVEMENTSNESTA H. WEBSTER
WORDS RELATED TO CHIMERA
- acuteness
- artistry
- awareness
- chimera
- cognition
- conception
- creation
- creative thought
- creativity
- enterprise
- fabrication
- fancy
- fantasy
- flight of fancy
- idea
- ideality
- illusion
- image
- imagery
- ingenuity
- insight
- inspiration
- intelligence
- invention
- inventiveness
- mental agility
- notion
- originality
- perceptibility
- realization
- resourcefulness
- sally
- supposition
- thought
- thoughtfulness
- unreality
- verve
- vision
- visualization
- wit
- wittiness
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