Chimera

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Chimera on a red-figure Apulian plate, ca 350-340 BCE (Musée du Louvre)

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Ancient Greek Χίμαιρα (Khimaira).

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Singular
Chimera

Plural
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Chimera

  1. (Greek mythology) A mythical monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.

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mythical monster
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