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Chimeric

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Adjective

1. chimeral, chimeric, chimerical

being or relating to or like a chimera

Example Sentences:
'his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Chimeric

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adjective
1. 
wildly fanciful; imaginary
2. 
given to or indulging in fantasies

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Chimeric

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adjective
1. 
imaginary; fantastic; unreal
2. 
absurd; impossible
3. 
indulging in unrealistic fancies; visionary

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Chimeric

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adj.
1. Relating to or being an organism, part, or molecule that is a chimera: chimeric mice; chimeric proteins.
2. Relating to a monoclonal antibody produced from the cells of a nonhuman organism, usually a mouse, in which a portion of the antibody has been replaced with a human sequence of amino acids. This is done in the laboratory by replacing part of the DNA sequence in the nonhuman cells with a sequence of human DNA.

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