Chamaeleon
Americannoun
genitive
Chamaeleontisnoun
Etymology
Origin of Chamaeleon
From Latin
Example Sentences
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The star is among the most massive and brightest in the Chamaeleon Complex, a nebula some 500 light-years away.
From National Geographic
Its name is HD 97300 and it’s one of the youngest—but also the most massive and brightest—stars in the Chamaeleon Complex, a cloudy incubator of stars 500 light-years away.
From Time
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 Project Gutenberg
Chamaeleon Heracleotes, who wrote upon the subject, has been lost in the general wreck of ancient literature.
From Project Gutenberg
The star is among the most massive and brightest in the Chamaeleon Complex, a nebula some 500 light-years away.
From National Geographic
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