Chimeras are monstrous fire-breathing hybrids composed of a lion with a serpent tail and a goats head rising out of its back. Seeing a Chimera was an omen for disaster.
The term chimera has come to describe any mythical or fictional animal with parts taken from various animals, or to describe anything composed of very disparate parts, or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling.
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Mythological Creatures (old version)
RandomA book filled with different mythological creatures from around the world.