animal
Chameleon
Chameleon as an animal people have named and used. Transformation, Curiosity, Untrustworthiness — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Chameleon is used in Medicine.
Pliny’s Natural History gives the chameleon an extended natural-history and remedy treatment among strange land animals. A named chameleon in that encyclopedia, not a generic lizard and not a modern pet-color dump alone.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
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Chameleon is historically related to Wool.
In Allen's Star Names, Chameleon and Wool are named as companions in the same handbook speech.
from Richard Hinckley Allen · Star Names, 1899
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Metamorphoses is associated with Chameleon.
In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, a dish subject to so many metamorphoses may be called the chameleon of the kitchen — chameleon names that metamorphoses cookery.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
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sources
- Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.
- Star Names · Richard Hinckley Allen
Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and Their Meanings (1899).
- Book of Household Management · Isabella Beeton
Isabella Beeton, Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861).