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chimera

chimera

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A deep-sea fish like a small shark with a long thin tail
  • noun
  • /kɪˈmɪrə/
  • Specialized
translation icon : quimera
  • Murphy has backed the tug up to the bow of the Chimera.

Examples

  • The Chimera is getting lower in the water, the bow submerged and the stern beginning to rise.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • The tug is tied up alongside the Chimera, whose dark hull stretches off for seven hundred more feet in the light of day.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • I am tied to the passenger vessel Chimera.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • We do hope you have a pIeasant stay aboard the Chimera.

    Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)

  • The Chimera's stern rises up out of the water, almost vertical now, slipping further and further under.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Water rushes in as Murphy wades out onto the Chimera's top deck.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • The Chimera is impaled broadside by a particularly devious rock promontory of a small island. INT. CHIMERA - BELOW DECKS WITH EPPS - CONTINUOUS - DAY

    Fiction book (2002)

  • The deep-sea chimera swam gracefully among the colorful corals.

  • Marine biologists study the chimera to understand its unique adaptations to the ocean depths.

  • We spotted a rare chimera during our investigation of underwater ecosystems.

Surface Forms

chimera singular
chimeras plural

Etymology

Chimera is used for a deep-sea fish because the fish looks strange and like a mix of animals, so people named it after the mythic creature and sometimes call it 'ghost shark'.