Chamaeleon

Senso (Inglese)

A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, imagined to resemble a chameleon, which lies south of the constellations Carina and Musca.

Concetti

Camaleonte

sinonimi

Chameleon

Traduzioni

Caméléon

Chamaeleon

Camaleó

Χαμαιλέων

Chamaeleon

الحرباء

Camaleão

Camaleón

Bukalemun

Chamaeleon

Etimologia (Inglese)

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.

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