chimerical

Meaning

Adjective

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.

Origin

From chimera, from Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek χίμαιρα. This term entered English in or around 1638.

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