Chamaeleon
WordNet
noun
(1) Lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue
(2) A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Apus and Mensa
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Etymology
Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From <
Proper noun
- A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a chamaeleon. It lies south of the constellations Carina and Musca.