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"etymology_text": "Variant of Middle English chimere, chymere, & chymera under renewed Latin influence from the 16th century, from French chimère, from Latin Chimaera, from Ancient Greek Χίμαιρα (Khímaira, “fire-breathing mythological monster, fire-spewing Lycian or Cilician mountain”), from χίμαιρα (khímaira, “she-goat”, from χίμαρος (khímaros, “male goat”) + -α (-a)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-. In reference to the fish, directly from Latin Chimaera, used by Linnaeus. In reference to organisms with distinct areas of different genetic makeups, a calque of German Chimäre, used by Hans Winkler in 1907.",
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"ref": "1382, John Purvey, Bible, Prologue, p. 31",
"text": "...beestis clepid chymeres, that han a part of ech beest, and suche ben not, no but oonly in opynyoun..."
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"ref": "1860, E. Cust, “The Chimeras: An Attempt to Show that the Compound Animals of the Assyrian Marbles are Representations of those Erected by Solomon and Jeroboam (Read 1st and 8th December, 1859.)”, in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, volume XII, Liverpool: Adam Holden, →OCLC, page 99",
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"text": "The game includes a bunch of chimeras, with the lion heads shooting fire and the snake tails whipping around trying to bite the player.",
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"ref": "1853, “the O’Hara Family” [pseudonym; John Banim], chapter XV, in The Nowlans, London: Simms and M‘Intyre, Paternoster Row; and Donegall Street, Belfast, →OCLC, page 142",
"text": "A voice had called him forth to think in solitude—a voice he durst not resist, the awful one of the future. It fell on John's heart like the mutter of approaching desolation. He heard it coming on, as the spell-bound in a hideous dream await, wordless and shivering, the progress of some chimera monster, whose grasp is to crush and destroy.",
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"ref": "2014, Abolala Soudavar, “Appendix II – From the Avesta to Sufi Treatises: A Standard Literary Technique”, in Mithraic Societies: From Brotherhood Ideal to Religion’s Adversary, Houston, Tx.: Abolala Soudavar, page 359",
"text": "The Magophonia was essentially the eruption of a long-simmering animosity between the pārsās (who revered Ahura Mazdā) and the Median magi (who believed in the supremacy of Mithra and Apam Napāt). A vivid expression of this animosity is displayed on the door jambs of Persepolis, where Darius is killing with a dagger a chimera monster with a scorpion tail.",
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"sense": "any similarly fantastic creature formed of parts from different animals",
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"roman": "šotor-gâv-palang",
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"word": "شترگاوپلنگ"
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"ref": "1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 70, in Barnaby Rudge; a Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty, London: Chapman & Hall, Strand, →OCLC, page 344",
"text": "As to being taken up, himself, for a rioter, and punished with the rest, Mr Dennis dismissed that possibility from his thoughts as an idle chimera; arguing that the line of conduct he had adopted at Newgate, and the service he had rendered that day, would be more than a set-off against any evidence which might identify him as a member of the crowd: […]",
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"ref": "2009, Amira K. Bennison, The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire, Yale University Press, page 159",
"text": "Although now considered a pseudo-science, the 'Abbasids were also fascinated by alchemy and the chimera of transforming base metals into gold for their treasury.",
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"text": "He built his car one piece at a time, producing a chimera with the head of a Volkswagen, the body of a Geely, and the tail of an aftermarket Porsche.",
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"ref": "2016 November 17, Gill Harris, “All about: Running Away with the Circus – Trans-Siberian March Band”, in Swindon Advertiser, England: Newsquest Media Group, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-11-18",
"text": "Throughout 12 tracks the ear is treated to a musical chimera where folk frolics and gypsy jaunts fight with klezmeric machinations and Slavic ska to form a brass infused Ottoman folk-punk or it might just be the sound of Bellowhead working as the house band in an Armenian brothel.",
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"sense": "anything composed of very disparate parts",
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"ref": "2016, Thomas A. Fudgé, “Gargoyles and Glimpses of Forgotten Worlds”, in Medieval Religion and Its Anxieties: History and Mystery in the Other Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages), New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, page 91",
"text": "A chimera is essentially a hybrid animal made up of various animal parts. The famous parapet chimeras on the north tower of Notre Dame in Paris, especially the brooding double-horned fellow with protruding tongue on the west parapet originally assumed to relate to a thirteenth-century model, are classic examples.",
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"sense": "grotesque resembling a gargoyle",
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"roman": "ximéra",
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"ref": "2014, David A[lan] Grimes, Linda G. Brandon, “Miscarriage: The Healthy Winnowing of Pregnancy”, in Every Third Woman in America: How Legal Abortion Transformed Our Nation, Carolina Beach, N.C.: Daymark Publishing",
"text": "[P]reembryo cells from different parents can combine and grow into a chimera (an individual with cells from two or more zygotes)—in this case, an entity containing genetic material from four parents! Spontaneous chimeras […] occur rarely in our species. Recent examples include a woman who resulted from the merger of two zygotes or the early fusion of two genetically distinct embryos.",
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"text": "The DNA test returned a false negative because the killer was a chimera, having absorbed her twin in utero.",
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"code": "ca",
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{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "kʿimera",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"word": "քիմերա"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "himera",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "химера"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "quimera"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"word": "chiméra"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chimère"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"word": "ĥimero"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"word": "harha"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chimère"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Schimäre"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "chímaira",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "χίμαιρα"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"word": "kiméra"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ciméara"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chimera"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chimera"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "quimera"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ximéra",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "химе́ра"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "quimera"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "chimär"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "xymera",
"sense": "foolish thought, product of the imagination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "химера"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "anything composed of very disparate parts",
"tags": [
"derogatory"
],
"word": "sekasikiö"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yoriaijotai",
"sense": "anything composed of very disparate parts",
"word": "寄り合い所帯"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "grotesque resembling a gargoyle",
"word": "groteski"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "grotesque resembling a gargoyle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gárgula"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ximéra",
"sense": "grotesque resembling a gargoyle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "химе́ра"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "quimera"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"word": "嵌合體"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiànhétǐ",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"word": "嵌合体"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"word": "chiméra"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chimaera"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"word": "harhama"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"word": "kimeeri"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chimère"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Chimäre"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "chímaira",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "χίμαιρα"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "chimairismós",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "χιμαιρισμός"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ciméara"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kimera",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"word": "キメラ"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "âmiže",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"word": "آمیژه"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chimera"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "quimera"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ximéra",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "химе́ра"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "chimär"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "xymera",
"sense": "organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "химера"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "fish in the subclass Holocephali",
"word": "ĥimero"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fish in the subclass Holocephali",
"word": "sillikuningaskala"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fish in the subclass Holocephali",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chimera"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "fish in the subclass Holocephali",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chimera"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "fish in the subclass Holocephali",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "przeraza"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "fish in the subclass Holocephali",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "quimera"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ximera",
"sense": "fish in the subclass Holocephali",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "химера"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Celebes Sea",
"Jacopo Ligozzi",
"Linnaeus"
],
"word": "chimera"
}
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"Italian countable nouns",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian feminine nouns",
"Italian lemmas",
"Italian nouns",
"Italian terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Italian terms derived from Latin",
"Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Italian undefined derivations",
"Rhymes:Italian/ɛra",
"Rhymes:Italian/ɛra/3 syllables",
"it:Fish",
"pl:Chimaeras (fish)"
],
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"args": {
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"2": "la",
"3": "chimaera"
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"name": "uder"
},
{
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"1": "it",
"2": "grc",
"3": "Χίμαιρα"
},
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"name": "uder"
}
],
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"form": "chimere",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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},
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}
],
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],
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"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"glosses": [
"chimera"
],
"links": [
[
"chimera",
"chimera#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"chimera, a kind of shark of the genus Chimaera"
],
"links": [
[
"chimera",
"chimera#English"
],
[
"Chimaera",
"Chimaera"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/kiˈmɛ.ra/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛra"
}
],
"word": "chimera"
}
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"Polish entries with incorrect language header",
"Polish feminine nouns",
"Polish learned borrowings from Latin",
"Polish lemmas",
"Polish links with manual fragments",
"Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
"Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
"Polish nouns",
"Polish terms borrowed from Latin",
"Polish terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Polish terms derived from Latin",
"Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Polish terms with audio links",
"Polish terms with homophones",
"Rhymes:Polish/ɛra",
"Rhymes:Polish/ɛra/3 syllables",
"pl:Chimaeras (fish)"
],
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{
"word": "chimerny"
},
{
"word": "chimeryczny"
},
{
"word": "chimeryczka"
},
{
"word": "chimeryk"
},
{
"word": "chimeryzm"
},
{
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
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{
"tags": [
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],
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},
{
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"1": "pl",
"2": "grc",
"3": "χίμαιρα"
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}
],
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{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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]
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"plural"
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},
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"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "chimer",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "chimerze",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "chimerom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "chimerę",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "chimery",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "chimerą",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "chimerami",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "chimerze",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "chimerach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "chimero",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "chimery",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "chimera f",
"name": "pl-noun"
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"word": "chimerycznie"
},
{
"word": "Chimera"
},
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"word": "chimeryczność"
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{
"categories": [
"pl:Art"
],
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"chimera (artistic representation of the Chimera, a mythological monster)"
],
"links": [
[
"art",
"art#Noun"
],
[
"chimera",
"chimera#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
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],
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"art",
"arts"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Polish literary terms"
],
"glosses": [
"caprice, fancy, whim"
],
"links": [
[
"caprice",
"caprice"
],
[
"fancy",
"fancy"
],
[
"whim",
"whim"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literary) caprice, fancy, whim"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dziwactwo"
},
{
"word": "kaprys"
},
{
"word": "urojenie"
},
{
"word": "zachcianka"
}
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"literary"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Polish literary terms"
],
"glosses": [
"delusion, figment of one's imagination, invention, phantom"
],
"links": [
[
"delusion",
"delusion"
],
[
"figment of one's imagination",
"figment of one's imagination"
],
[
"invention",
"invention"
],
[
"phantom",
"phantom"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
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],
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{
"word": "fantazja"
},
{
"word": "majak"
},
{
"word": "ułuda"
},
{
"word": "urojenie"
},
{
"word": "widziadło"
},
{
"word": "złuda"
}
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"literary"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"pl:Genetics"
],
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"chimera (organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes)"
],
"links": [
[
"genetics",
"genetics"
],
[
"chimera",
"chimera#English"
]
],
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"(genetics) chimera (organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes)"
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"biology",
"genetics",
"medicine",
"natural-sciences",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"chimaera, chimera, rabbitfish, ratfish (cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin)"
],
"links": [
[
"chimaera",
"chimaera"
],
[
"chimera",
"chimera#English"
],
[
"rabbitfish",
"rabbitfish"
],
[
"ratfish",
"ratfish"
]
],
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{
"word": "przeraza"
}
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/xiˈmɛ.ra/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛra"
},
{
"homophone": "Chimera"
}
],
"word": "chimera"
}
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