chimerical
Meanings
adj
- Of or pertaining to a chimera.
- Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
- Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
- Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
- Impossible to physically produce due to having an impossibly-high saturation or luminosity, but viewable by overlaying an afterimage and a suitably-colored physical image.
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Etymology
From chimera, from Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek χίμαιρα (khímaira, “she-goat”). This term entered English in or around 1638.
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