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  • adjective Alternative form of chimeric.

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Examples

  • An alleged "two-legged snake" turned out to be a snake that had recently eaten a frog; the legs protruded through the snake's skin after the snake was beaten to death, creating an odd chimaeric reptile.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • All three of them are wonderfully monstrous, monstrously wonderful … strange chimaeric creatures with the slouch of a lion, the soar of an eagle, the snort of a bull and the sorrow of a human being.

    Archive 2005-01-01 Hal Duncan 2005

  • All three of them are wonderfully monstrous, monstrously wonderful … strange chimaeric creatures with the slouch of a lion, the soar of an eagle, the snort of a bull and the sorrow of a human being.

    Top Three Reads - 2004 Hal Duncan 2005

  • So, judging from the first picture, I take it her birthday present involved an alchemist being sent in to transform her into some sort of chimaeric equine baby?

    Monday Baby Blogging: Sydney’s Third Birthday 2006

  • When therefore we call our plan chimaeric and eccentric, we in reality flatter the actual worthlessness of our artistic publicity, and in a manner mark it as the just and rational measure.

    Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt Tr 1888

  • When therefore we call our plan chimaeric and eccentric, we in reality flatter the actual worthlessness of our artistic publicity, and in a manner mark it as the just and rational measure.

    Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 Richard Wagner 1848

  • Immunotherapeutic strategies such as anti-VEG-F and chimaeric T-Cell receptors are increasingly being used because they are very tumor specific and limit side effects and subjects with recurrent disease.

    Biotech Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010

  • Vescovo G (2004) Muscle wastage in chronic heart failure, between apoptosis, catabolism and altered anabolism: a chimaeric view of inflammation?

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Siva K. Panguluri et al. 2010

  • The technique uses a novel wrapping procedure to deliver specific genes to reprogram cells into an embryonic-like state instead of the usual viral-delivery mechanism. iPS cells produced with this nonviral vector showed robust expression of pluripotency markers, indicating a reprogrammed state confirmed functionally by in vitro differentiation assays and formation of adult chimaeric mice, according to the team.

    GEN News Highlights 2009

  • The technique uses a novel wrapping procedure to deliver specific genes to reprogram cells into an embryonic-like state instead of the usual viral-delivery mechanism. iPS cells produced with this nonviral vector showed robust expression of pluripotency markers, indicating a reprogrammed state confirmed functionally by in vitro differentiation assays and formation of adult chimaeric mice, according to the team.

    GEN News Highlights 2009

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