| Noun | 1. | 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 | |
| 2. | chimaera - a grotesque product of the imagination | |
| 3. | chimaera - smooth-skinned deep-sea fish with a tapering body and long threadlike tailholocephalan - fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail | |