Chamaeleon

American  

[kuh-mee-lee-uhn, -meel-yuhn] / kəˈmi li ən, -ˈmil yən /

Also Chameleon

noun

Astronomy.

genitive

Chamaeleontis

1. a small southern constellation between Musca and Hydrus.

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Chamaeleon British  

/ kəˈmiːlɪən /

noun

1. a faint constellation lying between Volans and the South celestial pole

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Etymology

Origin of Chamaeleon

From Latin

Example Sentences

In the genus Chamaeleon we come to the acme of difference between the sexes.

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles

But the vision dissolves before historical truth; and Chamaeleon, and Hermesianax, who are the source of the supposition, are considered as having merely indulged in a poetical anachronism.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

Chamaeleon Heracleotes, who wrote upon the subject, has been lost in the general wreck of ancient literature.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

The chief genus is Chamaeleon, containing most of the fifty to sixty species of the whole group, and with the most extensive range, all through Africa and Madagascar into Arabia, southern India and Ceylon.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various