chimaera

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It has also misled him but too often into depicting a world of suicides, ignoring or overlooking a secret hobby, or passion, or chimaera which is the one thing that renders existence endurable to so many of the waifs and strays of life.

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  1. noun A deep-sea cartilaginous fish of the family Chimaeridae, having a smooth-skinned tapering body and a whiplike tail.
  2. noun Genetics Variant of chimera.

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  • No ordinary man could stand up to a chimaera, and the Hag knew it. —  Golem in the Gears
  • Kant, from what I am straining to understand, thought that virtue is merely "duty", and correspondingly thought joy, Aristotle's eudaimonia which Aquinas took onto a Christian plane, was a sort of chimaera. —  Sierra Highlands
  • This is similar to modern sharks, rays, and chimaera fish, whose brain growth slows as they age, even as the rest of their bodies expand. —  National Geographic News
  • These chimaera relatives, called iniopterygians, represented bizarre beasts that sported massive skulls with huge eye sockets, shark-like teeth in rows, tails with clubs, huge pectoral fins that were almost placed on their backs, and bone-like spikes or hooks tipping the fins. —  Livescience.com
  • Published in 2003. apkc asymmetrical-division blastomere-culture ccmputer-simulation cdx2 cell-cycle cell-line-establishment chimaera development e-cadherin embryonic-abembryonic-axis extraembryonic-endoderm ezrin flrt gap-junction gata6 lineage-trace mapk nanog oct34 par plasticity pluripotency polarity preimplantation review rho sperm-entrysite syndecan tead4 te-icm vezatin CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. New Latin Chimaera, type genus, from Latin chimaera, chimera; see chimera.
 

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