English Dictionary

chimera

IPA（発音記号）

/kʌɪˈmɪəɹə/

名詞

ギリシャ語 別表記

(Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Chimera (a flame-spewing monster often represented as having two heads, one of a goat and the other of a lion; the body of a goat; and a serpent as a tail).

日本語の意味

ギリシャ神話に登場する、火を吹く怪物。一般的には、ヤギの体、ヤギの頭とライオンの頭、そして蛇の尾を持つとされる。

The villagers whispered that a chimera had been seen on the mountain, its lion head roaring and its goat head belching flames.

村人たちは、山でキマイラが目撃されたとひそひそ話し、そのライオンの頭が咆哮し、ヤギの頭が炎を吐いた。

意味（1）

(Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Chimera (a flame-spewing monster often represented as having two heads, one of a goat and the other of a lion; the body of a goat; and a serpent as a tail).

Bellerophon was commanded to destroy this monster, and with the assistance of the flying horse, Pegasus, he slew the chimera.

意味（2）

(mythology) Any fantastic creature with parts from different animals.

A voice had called him forth to think in solitude—a voice he durst not resist, the awful one of the future. It fell on John's heart like the mutter of approaching desolation. He heard it coming on, as the spell-bound in a hideous dream await, wordless and shivering, the progress of some chimera monster, whose grasp is to crush and destroy.

意味（3）

Anything composed of very disparate parts.

The car which he built himself was a real chimera: half Volkswagen and half Porsche.

意味（4）

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

In the middle of theſe Cogitations, Apprehenſions, and Reflections, it came into my Thought one day, that all this might be a mere Chimera of my own; and that this Foot might be the Print of my own Foot, when I came on Shore from my Boat: This chear'd me up a little too, and I began to perſuade myſelf it was all a Deluſion; that it was nothing elſe but my own Foot; and why might I not come that way from the Boat, as well as I was going that way to the Boat: […]

意味（5）

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

A chimera is essentially a hybrid animal made up of various animal parts. The famous parapet chimeras on the north tower of Notre Dame in Paris, especially the brooding double-horned fellow with protruding tongue on the west parapet originally assumed to relate to a thirteenth-century model, are classic examples.

意味（6）

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

[P]reembryo cells from different parents can combine and grow into a chimera (an individual with cells from two or more zygotes)—in this case, an entity containing genetic material from four parents! Spontaneous chimeras […] occur rarely in our species. Recent examples include a woman who resulted from the merger of two zygotes or the early fusion of two genetically distinct embryos.

意味（7）

Usually 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.

The chimeras […] are an extant group of about 30 species. They have the upper jaw fused with the cranium and a gill cover over the four gill slits. They also have toothy plates that give them a ratlike appearance, thus the common name ratfish. The group occurs in ocean depths worldwide, where they mainly feed on invertebrates.

chimeras （ plural ）