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Definition of Chamaeleon

1. Noun. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Apus and Mensa.

2. Noun. Lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue.

Definition of Chamaeleon

1. Proper noun. (constellation) A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a chamaeleon. It lies south of the constellations Carina and Musca. ¹

2. Noun. (archaic spelling of chameleon) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chamaeleon

chalupa chalupas chalutz chalutzes chalutzim chalybeate chalybeate water chalybeates chalybeous chalybite

chalybites chalypsography cham chamade chamades chamaeleon chamaephyte chamaephytes chamar chamars

chamazulene chamber chamber ensemble chamber ensembles chamber music chamber of commerce chamber orchestra chamber orchestras chamber organ

Literary usage of Chamaeleon

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

1. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"Of the. two kinds of chamaeleon. XII. 5Of chamaeleon there is the white kind and the dark ; the properties of the roots are different, and the roots also ..."

2. Natural History, Lore and Legend: Being Some Few Examples of Quaint and By by Frederick Edward Hulme (1895)
"... The chamaeleon — Its changing colour—Serpents from air—The gift of invisibility—The ... chamaeleon ..."

3. Gartenflora: Monatsschrift Fur Deutsche und Schweizerische Garten- und ...by Eduard Regel by Eduard Regel (1908)
"643. U. odora Sw. 41, 642. dum fimbriatum fl. pl. 42. 87, 43, 92. C. carinatum Chamaeleon 47, 552. C. coro- narium fl. albo pleno 49, 45. ..."

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