CHAMELEON meaning: Lizard changes color for camouflage

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word chameleon:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

chameleon: Merriam-Webster
chameleon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Chameleon, chameleon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
chameleon: Collins English Dictionary
Chameleon, chameleon: Vocabulary.com
Chameleon, chameleon: Wordnik
chameleon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
chameleon: Wiktionary
chameleon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
chameleon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
chameleon: Infoplease Dictionary
Chameleon, chameleon: Dictionary.com
chameleon: Online Etymology Dictionary
chameleon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Chameleon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
chameleon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
chameleon: Rhymezone
chameleon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
chameleon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Chameleon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
chameleon: FreeDictionary.org
chameleon: Mnemonic Dictionary
Chameleon: TheFreeDictionary.com
chameleon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

chameleon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

chameleon: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

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Religion (2 matching dictionaries)

Chameleon: Easton Bible
Chameleon: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Chameleon, The Chameleon: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A person with inconstant behavior; one able to quickly adjust to new circumstances.
▸ noun:  (physics) A hypothetical scalar particle with a non-linear self-interaction, giving it an effective mass that depends on its environment: the presence of other fields.
▸ adjective:  Describing something that changes color.

Opposite:

ostentatious, garish, gaudy, loud

Types:

panther, african, jumping, gecko, iguana, bearded, parson's, calumma, chinese, more...

Phrases:

horned chameleon, American chameleon, african chameleon, chameleon tree frog, chameleon mineral, more...

Adjectives:

political, american, true, human, social, little, perfect, common, authentic, green, small

Colors:

green, brown, yellow, blue, red, more...

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