Chamaeleon

See also: chamaeleon, chameleon, Chamäleon, chamæleon, and chamæléon

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χαμαιλέων (khamailéōn).

Proper noun

Chamaeleon m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – certain carline thistle plants, with at most only a single currently accepted species Chamaeleon macrophyllus, most of whose former species are now in Carlina.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II – clades; Asterales – order; Asteraceae - family; Carduoideae - subfamily; Cardueae - tribe; Carlininae - subtribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Chamaeleon macrophyllus - sole accepted species

Coordinate terms

• (genus in Carlininae): Atractylis (distaff thistles), Atractylodes, Carlina (carline thistles), Thevenotia, Tugarinovia - genera

References

• Chamaeleon (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Carlina macrophylla on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Chamaeleon at The Plant List
• Carlina macrophylla on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

English

Etymology

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

Chamaeleon

1. (astronomy) 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).

   • 2001, A. Mizuno, T. Hayakawa, T. Onishi, Y. Fukui, Dense Core Survey toward the Chamaeleon Dark Cloud Complex with the NANTEN Radio Telescope, Alwyn Wootten (editor), Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA): Proceedings of a Conference, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, page 146.
   • 2005, Memorie Della Società Astronomica Italiana, Volume 76, Issues 1-2, Società Astronomica Italiana, page 263,

     We note, however, that the surveyed area in Chamaeleon II was relatively small in comparison with the other two regions, covering only part of a cloud core to the north-west.

Usage notes

• The Chamaeleon complex is a large star-forming region of dark nebulae (or dark clouds) which covers most of the constellation Chamaeleon and overlaps several neighbouring constellations. Its main components are the dark clouds Chamaeleon I, Chamaeleon II and Chamaeleon III.

Derived terms

• Chamaeleon complex
• Chamaeleon I
• Chamaeleon II
• Chamaeleon III

Related terms

• Chamaeleontis (translingual)

Translations

small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky

• Arabic: الْحِرْبَاء m (al-ḥirbāʔ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蝘蜓座 (zh) (yǎntíngzuò)

• Finnish: Kameleontti (fi)
• French: Caméléon (fr) m
• Galician: Camaleón (gl)
• German: Chamäleon (de) n
• Hebrew: זִקִּית (he) f (ziqit)
• Irish: an Caimileon m
• Italian: Camaleonte m
• Japanese: カメレオン座 (ja) (kamereonza)
• Korean: 카멜레온자리 (Kamelle'onjari)
• Malay: Sesumpah
• Norwegian: Kameleonen (no)
• Polish: Kameleon (pl) m
• Russian: Хамелеон (Xameleon)
• Spanish: Chamaeleon

Further reading

• Chamaeleon complex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Proper noun

Chamaeleon ?

1. (astronomy) Chamaeleon (small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky)