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adj. - Being or relating to or like a she-monster in Greek mythology having a lion's head, goat's body, and dragon's or serpent's tail or a lion's body and head together with a goat's head rising from the back

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  • His Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists
  • Adjective : a chimerical terrestrial paradise. ,a chimerical plan
  • Pretreatment of prenatally transplanted allogeneic marrow with VEGF and SCF delays allograft rejection in chimeric mice.
  • The primary vehicles for introducing fluorescent protein chimeric gene sequences into cells are genetically engineered bacterial plasmids and viral vectors.
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