Chameleon vs Skink - What's the difference?
chameleon | skink |
A small to mid-size reptile, of the family Chamaeleonidae , and one of the best known lizard families able to change color and project its long tongue.
A person with inconstant behavior; one able to quickly adjust to new circumstances.
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(physics) A hypothetical scalar particle with a non-linear self-interaction, giving it an effective mass that depends on its environment: the presence of other fields.
Describing something that changes color.
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A lizard of the Scincidae family, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed.
(obsolete) drink
(obsolete) pottage
As nouns the difference between chameleon and skink
is that chameleon is a small to mid-size reptile, of the family Chamaeleonidae, and one of the best known lizard families able to change color and project its long tongue while skink is a lizard of the Scincidae family, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed.As an adjective chameleon
is describing something that changes color.As a verb skink is
to serve (a drink.chameleon
English
(wikipedia chameleon)Alternative forms
* chamaeleon *Noun
(en noun)Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian , 8 September 2014:
- He is a political chameleon , as charming to business leaders he met privately in Aberdeen on Friday night as he has been inspiring to distressed and desperate Labour defectors in Glasgow and beyond.
Adjective
(-)- The wall was covered with a chameleon paint.
References
* *skink
English
(wikipedia skink)Etymology 1
From (etyl) scinc, from (etyl) scincus, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) scencan or (etyl) skenkja.Noun
- (Francis Bacon)
