Chamaeleon

chamaeleon chameleon Chamäleon chamæleon chamæléon Translingual Etymology From mul grc χαμαιλέων. Proper noun 1 m genus family Asteraceae certain carline thistle plants, with at most only a single currently accepted species Chamaeleon macrophyllus species, most of whose former species are now in Carlina Hypernyms genus ; Carduoideae subfamily - subfamily; Cardueae tribe - tribe; Carlininae subtribe - subtribe Hyponyms genus Chamaeleon macrophyllus species - sole accepted species Coordinate terms genus in Carlininae Atractylis genus (distaff thistle s), Atractylodes genus, Carlina genus (carline thistles), Thevenotia genus, Tugarinovia genus - genera References Carlina Chamaeleon (plant) Carlina macrophylla 1 Chamaeleon 1 Carlina macrophylla English + (constellation) Etymology en la chamaeleon chamaeleon, from en grc χαμαιλέων. en chameleon. Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. Proper noun en constellation A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, imagined to resemble a chameleon, which lies south of the constellations Carina and Musca. 1994, es Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Volumes 28-30, Instituto de Astronomía, National Autonomous University of Mexico 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 it, 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 en 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 en Chamaeleon I, en Chamaeleon II and en Chamaeleon III. Derived terms en Chamaeleon complex en Chamaeleon I en Chamaeleon II en Chamaeleon III Related terms mul Chamaeleontis translingual Translations small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky Arabic: ar الْحِرْبَاء m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 蝘蜓座 Esperanto: eo Ĥameleono Finnish: fi Kameleontti French: fr Caméléon m Galician: gl Camaleón German: de Chamäleon n Hebrew: he זיקית f ziqit זִקִּית Irish: ga Caimileon m an Caimileon Italian: it Camaleonte m Japanese: ja カメレオン座 Kamereon-za Kazakh: kk Хамелеон Korean: ko ^카멜레온자리 Malay: ms Sesumpah Norwegian: no Kameleonen Polish: pl Kameleon m Russian: ru Хамелеон Spanish: es Chamaeleon Further reading Chamaeleon complex Spanish es: Proper noun es constellation en Chamaeleon small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky