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Definition of Chimaeras
1. chimaera [n] - See also: chimaera
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chimaeras
Literary usage of Chimaeras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"CHAPTER XV THE HOLOCEPHALI, OR CHIMERAS HE chimaeras. — Very early in geological
times, certainly as early as the middle Silurian, ..."
2. The Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell (1903)
"The proposition " chimaeras are animals " may be easily interpreted by means of
formal ... Now in the case of chimaeras, it is easy to substitute the pure ..."
3. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"These have therefore been termed periclinal chimaeras in contradistinction to
the sectorial chimaeras in which longitudinal segments are evident. ..."
4. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"... is the group of Holocephali or chimaeras, shark-like in essentials, but
differing widely in details. Of these there are but few living forms, ..."
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