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A chimera is a mythical beast of Greek legend, represented in natural history texts with the body and head of a golden lion, a horned mountain goat's head emerging from its shoulder, and a venomous serpent for a tail.

Your chin is found on your face, above your neck and below your mouth.

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Chinese is the language spoken in China, anything to do with China or people from China.

A chipmunk is a small rodent that is very similar to the squirrel. They will eat nuts, berries, frogs and even baby mice.

A chiropractor is someone who manipulates the bones and muscles in your body. These manipulations can help restore balance in the body and make you feel better.

A chisel has a sharp edge at one end. It is used for carving or cutting something hard like wood, stone, or metal.
Chisels are usually used by hitting them on the end of the handle with a hammer to force them into whatever you are trying to cut.

Chives are a member of the onion family. Chives grow in clumps from a bulb under the ground. You can use the leaves cut up on salads or on potato or pasta dishes. You can use the flowers in salads too. Chives are very easy to grow from seed, and they can also grow new chives by digging up a clump and splitting off the smaller side bulbs.
There are different varieties of chives, one of the most useful being garlic chives, which have leaves and flowers with a strong garlic flavour.

Chocolate is made from the fermented, roasted seeds of the tropical cacao tree. The seeds are used to make cocoa solids and cocoa butter.
Chocolate is used to make a huge variety of sweets, desserts, cakes and drinks.
Modern chocolate usually comes in dark, milk and white chocolate. All three of them have sugar added. Milk chocolate has milk added to it, and white chocolate doesn't have cocoa solids in it, only cocoa butter.

You choose something when you pick it from several different options.

The toddler in the picture is thinking about whether to choose carrot, potato or broccoli.

A chopping board is a portable surface, usually made from wood or plastic, that is used when you are cutting up food so that your kitchen table or benches don't get damaged.