- Chimera, Chimaera - (Greek mythology) fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon
--1 is a kind of mythical monster, mythical creature
- chimera, chimaera - a grotesque product of the imagination
--2 is a kind of imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery
- chimaera - smooth-skinned deep-sea fish with a tapering body and long threadlike tail
--3 is a kind of holocephalan
--3 is a member of genus Chimaera
--3 has particulars: rabbitfish, Chimaera monstrosa