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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
chimaera is a noun meaning "(Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon". It carries 3 recorded senses.
(Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon
Greek mythology
a grotesque product of the imagination
a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for chimaera come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.