"Frankenstein's monster" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1991, Euan George Nisbet, Living Earth: A Short History of Life and Its Home, page 84",
          "text": "Like the English language, the eukaryote cell is a chimera, a Frankenstein's monster, assembled from bits and pieces of genetic information...",
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          "ref": "1995, Roger Horrocks, Jo Campling, Male Myths and Icons: Masculinity in Popular Culture, page 141",
          "text": "He is like a Frankenstein's monster in reverse: everything that is pretty is combined together to produce a perfect androgyne.",
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          "roman": "pranḳenšṭainis určxuli",
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          "word": "ფრანკენშტაინის ურჩხული"
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          "word": "Франкенштейн құбыжығы"
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      "word": "フランケンシュタインの怪物"
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      "word": "Франкенштейн құбыжығы"
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