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chimaera
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Chimaera is the fourth and final book in Ian Irvine 's The Well of Echoes quartet . Category:2004 novels Category:The Three Worlds novels
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n. 1 (alternative spelling of chimera English) 2 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
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A quite different way of creating a chimaera is to fuse two early mouse embryos. ▪ Germ-line chimaeras were obtained from both clones. ▪ The embryo is thus a chimaera , a mosaic of two different kinds of cells. ▪ Two out of 160 ...
Usage examples of chimaera.
Only close members of the family called Centaine that, and Holly had never done so before.
The chimaera crawled outside as the Mouvar weapon sagged in his tingling fingers.
And before Goya you have to go back to the mediaeval chaps who did the gargoyles and chimaeras on Notre Dame and Mont Saint-Michel.
The chimaera was emitting lightning, and the stings in the ground received the lightning and made the spectacular display.
Gorgons and Chimaeras dire, might be expected to gloom out occasionally from the awful Fauna of an ever-generating world upon that one which was being born of it.
It was dark, and our imaginations were excited by his stories of apparitions, and this may have brought us, unknown to us, to the threshold, between sleeping and waking, where Sphinxes and Chimaeras sit open-eyed and where there are always murmurings and whisperings.
Now Stapular was pulling off his own left hand, and the ruby light declawed the chimaera.
The polished, spearlike, copper object that he had said came from the scorpiocrab tail of the chimaera.
Though separate, they were closer than triplets, because of an incidental legacy of the chimaera: telepathy.
You mean a superior, frame-jumping party came here to find a chimaera, and was captured by lowly froogears?
We didn't know this world existed, and as I've mentioned, we thought chimaeras a myth.
They're protecting this last of the chimaera, even bringing it copper.
One moment he was trying fruitlessly to sleep on the straw bed the chimaera provided, and the next it was broad daylight and he was looking up at an orange sky with whippy yellow clouds.
He deserves to be, though I doubt the chimaera will find him tasty eating.
The gauntlets felt warm, but the very existence of the chimaera could account for that.