Lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue

• A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Apus and Mensa

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context constellation English) A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a chamaeleon. It lies south of the constellations Carina and Musca.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
chamaeleon \chamaeleon\ n. [L. Chamaeleon, Gr. chamaile`wn, lit., ``ground lion;'' chamai` on the ground + le`wn lion.] (Zo["o]l.) a lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue. Syn: chameleon.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The modern constellation Chamaeleon is not included in the Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions system of traditional Chinese uranography because its stars are too far south for observers in China to know about them prior to the introduction of Western ...