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Look up: Chameleon

  1. chameleon
    [n] - lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue
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  2. Chameleon
    Cha·me'le·on (kȧ*mē'le*ŭn) noun [ Latin Chamaeleon , Greek chamaile`wn , lit., 'ground lion;' chamai` on the ground + le`wn lion. See Humble , and Lion .] (Zoology) A ...
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  3. chameleon
    chamaeleon noun lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue
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  4. chameleon
    noun a changeable or inconstant person
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  5. Chameleon
    • (n.) A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamaeleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back.
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  6. chameleon
    any member of the reptile family Chamaeleontidae, a group of Old World, primarily tree-dwelling lizards characterized chiefly by their ability to ... [5 related articles]
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  7. Chameleon
    HMS Chameleon was a British Algerine Class minesweeper of 950 tons displacement launched in 1944. HMS Chameleon was powered by two 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 16.5 knots. She carried a peacetime complement of 85 and between 104 and 138 in war. For defence she was armed with one 4-in...
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  8. chameleon
    Type: Term Pronunciation: kă-mēl′yon Definitions: 1. A fluorescent indicator engineered to bind to specified intracellular locations for investigation of biologic reactions (calcium-mediated signals).
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  9. chameleon
    chameleon (kumē'lēun, –mēl'yun) , small- to medium-sized lizard of the family Chamaeleonidae. About eighty species are found in sub-Saharan Africa, with a few in S Asia. The so-called common chameleon, Chamaeleo chamaeleon, is found around the Mediterranean. Chameleon...
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  10. Chameleon
    A chameleon is a very slow lizard with a long and deadly fast tongue used for catching its prey. It has split toes specially adapted for grasping and swivel eyes. The chameleon can change colour in a green to yellowish grey range to suit its surroundings, and also changes colour depending upon its mood and state of agitation.
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  11. chameleon
    Click images to enlargeAny of 80 or so species of lizard of the family Chameleontidae. Some species have highly developed colour-changing abilities, caused by stress and changes in the intensity of light and temperature, which alter the dispersal of pigment granules in the layers of cells beneath the outer skin. The t...
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  12. Chameleon
    `Chameleons` (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of lizards. They are distinguished by their parrot-like zygodactylous feet, their separately mobile and stereoscopic eyes, their very long, highly modified, and rapidly extrudable tongues, their swaying gait, the pos...
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  13. Chameleon
    (comics) image= --> The `Chameleon` is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appears in The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (March 1963), and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko; the Chameleon is the first member of Sp...
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  14. Chameleon
    (computing) `Chameleon` is a computer workstation design produced at ETH Zurich running the Oberon operating system. It was also the name of an older luggable computer from the early 1980s, distinguished by being able to run both the MS-DOS and CP/M-80 operating systems.
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  15. Chameleon
    (label) :For the type of lizard, see chameleon. For other uses of the word, see chameleon (disambiguation)``. `Chameleon` was a record label formed by industry veterans Andy Frances and Steve Powers, and was funded by Dan Protzker. In the last years of the label`s existence, Chameleon ...
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  16. Chameleon
    (disambiguation) A `chameleon` is an Old World lizard belonging to the family Chamaeleonidae. `Chameleon` may also refer to: Science and philosophy: Music: Bands: Film and television: Other arts: Computing:
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  17. Chameleon
    (Helloween album) `Chameleon` is the fifth studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 1993. It is their most musically adventurous release, but also their least commercially successful, and last studio album (notwithstanding compilation releases) to feature singer M...
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  18. Chameleon
    (The Twilight Zone) "`Chameleon`" is the third and final segment of the second episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Synopsis: A United States space shuttle orbits the Earth. The shuttle TV camera starts to malfunction, and th...
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  19. Chameleon
    (GIS) `Chameleon` is an open source, distributed, highly configurable, environment for developing Web Mapping applications. It is built on MapServer as the core mapping engine and works with all MapServer supported data formats. It also works well with OpenGIS Consortium standards for Web Map...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chameleon

  20. Chameleon
    (British band) `Chameleon` was a vocal group founded in 1989 by Ivor Novello Award-winning composer Nigel Hess, and featuring former Swingle Singers member Olive Simpson (soprano), Lindsay John (alto), Jeremy Taylor (tenor), Michael Dore (baritone) and David Beavan (bass). They were best know...
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  21. Chameleon
    (American band) :For the type of lizard, see chameleon. For other uses of the word, see chameleon (disambiguation). --> `Chameleon` is a late 1970s/early 1980s American rock band founded by Charlie Adams. Chameleon made Billboard charts and was renowned for Adams’ two-axis revol...
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  22. Chameleon
    (composition) :For the type of lizard, see chameleon. For other uses of the word, see chameleon (disambiguation). "`Chameleon`" is a jazz standard composed by Herbie Hancock in collaboration with Bennie Maupin, Paul Jackson and Harvey Mason, all of whom also performed the ori...
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  23. Chameleon
    (Maynard Ferguson album) | Name = Chameleon | Type = Artist = Maynard Ferguson | Cover = ChameleonFerguson.jpg | Released = 1974 | Recorded = Apr 1, 1974 –,Apr 4, 1974 | Genre = Label = Columbia Records|Columbia | Producer = Teo Macero | Last album = 1974 - M.F. Horn 4 & 5: Live at...
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