chamaeleon
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If ever there was a blatantly "political chamaeleon" --- IT IS JOE BIDEN.
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- a lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue.
- a small constellation in the southern skies between Hydrus and Musca.
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If ever there was a blatantly "political chamaeleon" --- IT IS JOE BIDEN.
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As the political chamaeleon said in the debate "IT IS A MATTER OF FAIRNESS."
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The Regent, in short, could scarcely have discovered a Scottish adviser worthy of employment, and when she did trust one, he was the brilliant "chamaeleon," young Maitland of Lethington, who would rather betray his master cleverly than run a straight course, and did betray the Regent.
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_musca chamaeleon_; see Geoffroy, t.xvii. f.
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Pro-venit enim ibi, ut ab herbariis accepi, tragium dictamnum Cretense, chamaeleon bigenum, draucus, meum, nardus, celtica, anonides, anemone, peucedamum, turbit, reubarbarum, pyrethrum, juniperus ubertim, stellarla, imperatoria, cardus masticem fundens, dracagas, cythisus -- _whence likewise the magnificent cheeses; gold and the Phrygian stone, he adds, are also found here.
— Old Calabria
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- [L.
Chamaeleon , Gr.chamaile`wn , lit., “ground lion;â€chamai` on the ground +le`wn lion.]