chimeric
/kaɪˈmɪrɪk/
adjective
- Relating to or resembling a chimera; imaginary, impossible, or wildly fanciful.
- Her chimeric hopes for a quick fortune led her to make unwise investments.
- The artist's chimeric paintings combined elements of humans, animals, and machines.
- The scientist dismissed the theory as chimeric, with no basis in fact.
- In biology, describing an organism composed of cells from two or more different individuals or species.
- The chimeric mouse had cells from both a black and a white strain.
- Chimeric antibodies are used in some medical treatments.
- Researchers created a chimeric plant that produced flowers of two different colors.
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