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English
Noun
chamæleon (plural chamæleons)
- Alternative spelling of chameleon
1570, George Buchanan, Chamæleon, page 51:The Chamæleon…eftir sum dubitatioun come to Striueling.
French
Noun
chamæleon m (plural chamæleons)
- Obsolete form of caméléon.
1682, Laurent d’Houry, Description Anatomique de Divers Animaux Diſſequez dans l’Academie Royale des Sciences, page 8:Cette particularité qu’Ariſtote a remarquée,nous fit penſer à ce que Theophraſte dit du poumon du Chamæleon , à ſçavoir qu’il s’étend par tout ſon corps.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)