chimeric

Adjective

chimeric (comparative more chimeric, superlative most chimeric)

1. Like a chimera.
   • They crossed before the sun and vanished one by one and reappeared again and they were black in the sun and they rode out of that vanished sea like burn phantoms with the legs of the animals kicking up the spume that was not real and they were lost in the sun and lost in the lake and they shimmered...1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, page 109
2. Imaginary, fanciful.
3. Pertaining to a genetic chimera.
   • Application of the technology for producing chimeric mice has given considerable insight into the way intestinal crypts are organized.1997, Nicholas A. Wright, “Stem cell repertoire in the intestine”, in C. S. Potten, editor, Stem cells, →ISBN, page 322
   • Chimeric embryos are made by injecting cells or genetic material from one species into the embryo of another.2008 May 19, David Batty, The Guardian