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chameleon

/kuh-mee-lee-uhn, -meel-yuhn/US // kəˈmi li ən, -ˈmil yən //UK // (kəˈmiːlɪən) //

变色龙,色狼,避风港,蜥蜴

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the color of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
    • : any of several American lizards capable of changing the color of the skin, especially Anolis carolinensis, of the southeastern U.S.
    • : a changeable, fickle, or inconstant person.
    • : Astronomy. Chamaeleon.

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Examples

  • Scientists say they discovered a sunflower seed-sized subspecies of chameleon that may well be the smallest reptile on Earth.

  • Hidden beneath the leaf litter of a northern Malagasy forest lives a chameleon so slight that it could tumble off the tip of your finger.

  • Like many people unsure of their identities, Owusu initially played the part of a chameleon of sorts, adopting the characteristics of wherever she was and adapting to them.

  • An impressive chameleon, Saint Bodhi has a distinctive perspective that pours out of this G-funk-laced cut called “Zombie”.

  • With tresses that can transform into spaces buns, beautiful braids and ethereal pixie-length coiffures, Janelle Monáe is a bonafide hair chameleon.

  • “Sue (Or In a Season of Crime)” brings the rock chameleon into jazz territory, backed up by a horn-heavy jazz big band.

  • You have to be an everyman and chameleon, so that every bit of you is involved in the end.

  • While he could be a chameleon on the international stage, he was never a man of dialogue on the domestic front.

  • He is also a chameleon, he says, able to adapt his personality to appease any audience.

  • She is a real chameleon … in every look she comes out looking like a different person and that is gold in our business.

  • That is a research which yields no statistics, an enquiry like asking what is the ruling colour of a chameleon.

  • Only a lizard scuttling over the dark-washed bedroom wall, first cousin to the chameleon you saw at Abu Simbel.

  • I am unstable as water; incoherent, inconsistent, a very chameleon!

  • From Forbess work we extract the following particulars respecting The Chameleon.

  • If one has a chameleon's tongue, cut out before the creature's death, he may defy all the sharpers in the world.

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