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138 wordies list
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colleen (4879 words)
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Words I have learned that I can't ever use in ordinary speech because none of my friends know them., by CatKisses
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vivek's list, by vivek_av
wurds i lyke, by anovak
Good words., by Perpheum
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Favourite Words, by Shagz
je les adore!, by frigga
Kratoz's Words, by Kratoz
Jane Eyre, by amoore5272
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It is also spelt 'chimaera' reflecting its Greek origin. Originally, it was a fabulous beast - a fire-sputing monster with a lion's head, srpent's tail and a goat's body. It came to mean any idle or wild fancy, especially one that would prove to be short-lived, to 'melt away' like a mirage.
Typically seen in zoology (but also discovered to a rare extent in human beings), a chimera is an animal that has two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells that originated in different zygotes; if the different cells emerged from the same zygote, it is called a mosaicism.
from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)
In medicine, a person composed of two genetically distinct types of cells. About 8% of non-identical twin pairs are chimeras.