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What is the adjective for chimeric?

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chimerical
  1. Of or pertaining to a chimera.
  2. Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
  3. Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
  4. Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “They spend their time pursuing chimerical sources and putting a fictional story on the air claiming their unimpeachable sources.”
      “Meanwhile back at The Hacienda, the pastor's cleansing interview with Lilia is about to begin and end in a most chimerical and velocious way.”
      “Attention to the chimerical task of divining a patient's early traumas is attention subtracted from sensible help in the here and now.”
chimeric
  1. Like a chimera.
  2. Imaginary, fanciful.
  3. (genetics) Pertaining to a genetic chimera.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “A chimeric creature with the body of a lion, the head of a goat, and the tail of a serpent adorned the walls of the ancient texts, the product of a vivid and imaginative mind.”
      “Transgenic tobacco plants bearing this chimeric gene were found to be tolerant to glufosinate treatment.”
      “Now Weissman says he is thinking about making chimeric mice whose brains are 100 percent human.”
chimeralike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a chimera (fabulous creature with parts of different animals).
chimeral
  1. Of or pertaining to a chimera (in all senses)
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Thus they have receptive listeners ready to go for chimeral growth at all cost and regardless of the damage caused en route.”
chimaeroid
  1. (zoology) Related to, or like, the chimaera fish.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The chimaeroid fishes of the Philippine Islands with description of a new species.”
      “The chimaeroid fishes of the Philippine Islands, with description of a new species.”
      “Chimaeroid egg capsules occur in the Turners Falls Formation of the adjacent Deerfield Basin.Triassic chimaeroid egg capsules from the Connecticut Valley.”
chimaeral
  1. Alternative spelling of chimeral
chimaeric
  1. Alternative form of chimeric
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