Definition of Genus Chamaeleon

1. Noun. Type genus of the Chamaeleontidae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Chamaeleon

genus Cetorhinus
genus Cetraria
genus Chaenactis
genus Chaenomeles
genus Chaenopsis
genus Chaetodipterus
genus Chaetodon
genus Chalcis
genus Chalcostigma
genus Chamaea
genus Chamaecrista
genus Chamaecyparis
genus Chamaecytisus
genus Chamaedaphne
genus Chamaeleo
genus Chamaeleon (current term)
genus Chamaemelum
genus Chara
genus Charadrius
genus Charina
genus Charronia
genus Chateura
genus Chauna
genus Cheilanthes
genus Cheiranthus
genus Chelidonium
genus Chelifer
genus Chelone
genus Chelonia
genus Chelydra

Literary usage of Genus Chamaeleon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1901)
"... with between fifty and sixty species, which, with a few exceptions, belong to the genus Chamaeleon. Ch. vulgaris is the Common Chameleon of North Africa ..."

2. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1880)
"In the genus Chamaeleon we come to the climax of differences between the sexes. The upper part of the skull of the male C. ..."

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