Chamaeleon

Etymology
From.

Hypernyms

 * ; - subfamily;  - tribe;  - subtribe

Hyponyms

 * - sole accepted species

Coordinate terms

 * ,, (carline thistles), ,  - genera

Etymology
, from. . Named by Dutch explorers and  between 1595 and 1597.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, imagined to resemble a chameleon, which lies south of the constellations Carina and Musca.
 * 2) * 1994, , Volumes 28-30, Instituto de Astronomía,, 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).
 * 1) * 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,, page 146.
 * 2) * 2005, Memorie Della Società Astronomica Italiana, Volume 76, Issues 1-2,, 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 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,  and.

Translations

 * Arabic: الْحِرْبَاء
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Irish: Caimileon
 * Italian: Camaleonte
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 카멜레온자리
 * Malay: Sesumpah
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: Хамелеон
 * Spanish: Chamaeleon

Proper noun

 * 1)   small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky