Chameleon vs Hippo - What's the difference?
chameleon | hippo |
As nouns the difference between chameleon and hippo is that chameleon is chameleon while hippo is short form of hippopotamus.
chameleon Alternative forms
* chamaeleon
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Noun
( en noun)
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.
* 2014 , Michael White, " 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.
(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.
Adjective
( -)
Describing something that changes color.
- The wall was covered with a chameleon paint.
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hippo English
Noun
( en noun)
Short form of hippopotamus.
* 2006' "The Eastern Cape village whose dam has been taken over by a '''hippo will decide next week what happens to the animal." ''Weekend Argus 24 June 2006.
Derived terms
*hippo fly
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