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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 4 points 5 days ago

I know nothing about vocaloids so I have no context here, but I can tell you that "chimera" is a word that English borrowed from ancient Greek, which is why it doesn't sound much like a usual English word. There's an old Greek myth about a hero called Bellerophon slaying a monster called the chimera, and since the mythical chimera is a hybrid of several animals we adopted the word as a more general term