名詞 chimera:

1. (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon
   同義詞：Chimaera
2. a grotesque product of the imagination
   同義詞：chimaera

chimera 也作 chi.mae.ra

n.Genetics （名詞）【遺傳學(xué)】
An organism consisting of two or more tissues of different genetic composition, produced as a result of mutation, grafting, or the mixture of cell populations from different zygotes.
嵌合體：由兩種或兩種以上有不同基因結(jié)構(gòu)的組織所構(gòu)成的有機(jī)體，由于突變、嫁接或來自不同合子的細(xì)胞群體相混合而產(chǎn)生
An organism produced by genetic engineering, in which DNA from distinct parent species is combined to produce an individual with a double chromosome complement.
嵌合體：在遺傳工程中所產(chǎn)生的有機(jī)體，在此過程中將不同親本種類的DNA結(jié)合起來產(chǎn)生具有雙重染色體配對的個(gè)體

來源：
Middle English chimere [Chimera]
中古英語 chimere [喀邁拉]
from Old French
源自 古法語
from Latin chimaera
源自 拉丁語 chimaera
from Greek khimaira [chimera, she-goat] * see ghei-
源自 希臘語 khimaira [虛構(gòu)的怪物，母山羊] *參見 ghei-