Chimera

Stryge (1853) is a print by French etcher Charles Méryon depicting one of the chimera of the Galerie des chimères of the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral.

True and False Griffins from John Ruskin's Modern Painters (Part IV. Of Many Things), first published in 1856.

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Rhombicuboctahedron by Leonardo da Vinci

Chimera, chimaira, or chimaera may refer to:

Chimera (mythology), a monstrous creature with parts from multiple animals
Mount Chimaera, the region in Lycia that some believe was an inspiration for the myth
Chimera (genetics), a single animal organism with genetically distinct cells from two different zygotes
Chimera (plant), a single plant organism with genetically distinct cells from two different zygotes or from a mixed-species callus
Chimera (John Barth novel), 1972 National Book Award-winning novel
Chimera (architecture), a fantastic, mythical or grotesque decorative feature
Chimera of Arezzo, a bronze sculpture of the Etruscans
To Every Man His Chimera, prose poem by Charles Baudelaire

Dictionary lemma

In Greek mythology: A mythical monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two zygotes.
A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.
In architecture: A gargoyle that does not work as a waterspout.

Of or pertaining to a chimera.
Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
a chimerical goal
Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.