chimera

     

Chimera, chimaira or chimaera may refer to:

Trivia about chimera

  • The name of this monster is from the Greek for "she-goat"
  • This synonym for an imaginary thing came from a mythical monster with a lion's head, goat's body & dragon's tail
  • In Greek myth this fire-breather killed by Bellerophon had a she-goat's body
  • A cultivated plant of multiple genetic types is called this, after a mythical lion-goat-serpent
  • This fire-breathing monster had the head of a lion, the body of a she-goat & the hindquarters of a snake
  • In mythology this fire-breathing monster wreaked havoc in Lycia before she was killed by Bellerophon
  • The name of this fire-breathing, lion-headed, goat-bodied monster has come to mean any idle fancy