Definition of "Chimera"

Chimera

/kaɪˈmɪɹə/

proper noun
1. (Greek mythology) A supposed fire-breathing monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or snake, killed by the hero Bellerophon.
  Quotations
  CHIMERA, a fabulous monſter...
  1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184
2. (geography, Ancient Greece) A fire-spewing mountain in Lycia or Cilicia, presumed to be an ancient name for the Yanartaş region of Turkey's Antalya Province.
  Quotations
  CHIMERA... The foundation of the fable was, that in Lycia there was a burning mountain, or vulcano, of this name; that the top of this mountain was ſeldom without lions, nor the middle, which had very good graſs, without goats; that ſerpents bred at the bottom, which was marſhy; and that Bellerophon rendered the mountain habitable.
  1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184
3. (historical) Former name of Himara, a port town in southern Albania.
  Quotations
  CHIMÆRA, in geography, a port town of Turky in Europe, ſituated at the entrance of the gulph of Venice, in the province of Epirus, about thirty-two miles north of the city Corfu, near which are the mountains of Chimæra, which divide Epirus from Theſſaly...
  1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184
4. (historical) Former name of Ceraunian Mountains, the Albanian mountain range near Himara.