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Definition of chameleon in English Turkish dictionary
- (Astronomi) bukalemun (takımyıldızı)
- bukalemun
Bukalemun deri rengini değiştirebilir.
-The chameleon can change its skin color.
- (Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) Bukalemun, (zool.) Chamaeleon vulgaris
- (Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) Sık sık fikir ve tavır değiştiren kimse
- Chamaeleon vulgaris
- (isim) bukalemun
- i., zool. bukalemun
- dengesiz kişi
- chameleon-like
- bukalemun gibi
- african chameleon
- afrika bukalemunu
- american chameleon
- amerikan bukalemunu
- horned chameleon
- boynuzlu bukalemun
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Definition of chameleon in English English dictionary
- A person with inconstant behavior; one able to quickly adjust to new circumstances
- Describing something that changes color
The wall was covered with a chameleon paint.
- A small to mid-size reptile, of the family Chamaeleonidae, and one of the best known lizard families able to change color and project its long tongue
- changeable in appearance
- {n} an animal of the lizard kind, whose color changes with his position to the light
- lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue
- A chameleon is a kind of lizard whose skin changes colour to match the colour of its surroundings. Any member of a group of Old World, primarily tree-dwelling lizards in the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized chiefly by their ability to change body colour. Other traits include toes fused into opposite bundles of two and three, teeth attached to the jaw edge, and a long, slender, extensile tongue. About half of the 89 species are found only in Madagascar; the others live mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. A few are found elsewhere. Most are 7-10 in. (17-25 cm) long, with a body flattened from side to side. The bulged eyes move independently. Each species can undergo a particular range of colour change. Insects are the main diet, but larger species also eat birds
- a changeable or inconstant person
- A commercial Internet package designed specifically for the Windows environment by NetManage of Cupertino, CA
- a lizard that can change colour to match its background
- lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue a changeable or inconstant person
- A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamæleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe
- Commercial Windows software that allows you to connect directly to the Internet by way of a SLIP Internet provider
- You are a chameleon, i e very changeable- shifting according to the opinions of others, as the chameleon changes its hue to that of contiguous objects “As the chameleon, who is known To have no colours of its own, But borrows from his neighbour's hue, His white or black, his green or blue ” Prior Pliny tells us that Democritus wrote a book on superstitions connected with the chameleon C'est un cameleon One who shifts his opinions according to circumstances; a vicar of Bray To chameleonise is to change one's opinions as a chameleon changes its colour
- The skin is covered with fine granulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back
- a faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Apus and Mensa
- {i} lizard with the ability to change the color of its skin
- chameleon tree frog
- a form of tree toad
- african chameleon
- a chameleon found in Africa
- american chameleon
- small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color
- chameleons
- plural of chameleon
- horned chameleon
- a kind of chameleon
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chameleon
Hyphenation
cha·me·le·onTurkish pronunciation
kımiliınPronunciation
/kəˈmēlēən/ /kəˈmiːliːən/
Etymology
[ k&-'mEl-y&n ] (noun.) 14th century. From Latin chamaeleon Ancient Greek χαμαιλέων (khamaileōn) from χαμαί (khamai, “on the earth, on the ground”) + λέων (leon, “lion”). First attested in 1340.Resimler
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