Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A constellation in the southern polar region near Apus and Mensa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Astronomy) a small constellation in the southern skies between Hydrus and Musca.
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- proper noun astronomy A small
circumpolar constellation of thesouthern sky, said to resemble achamaeleon . It lies south of the constellationsCarina andMusca .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Artwork comparing the sizes of the 55 Cancri system (left) with a small brown dwarf star system in the constellation of Chamaeleon (upper right).
George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt Lucy 2009
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Artwork comparing the sizes of the 55 Cancri system (left) with a small brown dwarf star system in the constellation of Chamaeleon (upper right).
George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt Lucy 2009
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Artwork comparing the sizes of the 55 Cancri system (left) with a small brown dwarf star system in the constellation of Chamaeleon (upper right).
George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt Lucy 2009
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Artwork comparing the sizes of the 55 Cancri system (left) with a small brown dwarf star system in the constellation of Chamaeleon (upper right).
George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt Lucy 2009
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Imaginatio est tanquam Proteus vel Chamaeleon, corpus proprium et alienum nonnunquam afficiens.
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Of all oviparous animals that live on land there is none so lean as the Chamaeleon.
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Aristotle, Theophrastus, Chamaeleon, and Hieronomus wrote essays on drunkenness.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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Aristotle, Theophrastus, Chamaeleon, and Hieronomus wrote essays on drunkenness.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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_Chamaeleon_ (_u. s._), a tract on the Reformation of St Andrews University,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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[Footnote 13: So Weislingen (in _Götz von Berlichingen_), whom Goethe meant to be a double of himself, says: "_Ich bin ein Chamaeleon_."]
The Youth of Goethe Peter Hume Brown 1883
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