chamaeleon
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chamaeleon¹
noun chamaeleons
- Archaic spelling of chameleon
Chamaeleon²
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin chamaeleon (“chamaeleon”), from Ancient Greek χαμαιλέων (khamailéōn). Doublet of chameleon. Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597.
proper noun
- A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, imagined to resemble a chameleon, which lies south of the constellations Carina and Musca. 1994, Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Volumes 28-30, Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, page 50, The X-ray luminosity function has been determined so far only for the far only for the central parts of the Chamaeleon SFR by Fiegelson et al. (1993).
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name small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky
| Español | Chamaeleon |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 카멜레온자리 Kamelle'onjari |
| 日本語 | カメレオン座 Kamereon-za |
| 中文 | 蝘蜓座 Yǎntíngzuò |
| Français | Caméléon |
| Deutsch | Chamäleon |
| Italiano | Camaleonte |
| Русский | Хамелеон Xameleon |
| العربية | الْحِرْبَاء al-ḥirbāʔ |
| עברית | זִקִּית ziqit |
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