Chameleon vs Skink - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between chameleon and skink is that chameleon is chameleon 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 or skink can be (obsolete) drink. As a verb skink is (scotland) to serve (a drink).
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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skink Etymology 1
From (etyl) scinc, from (etyl) scincus, from (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
A lizard of the Scincidae family, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) scencan or (etyl) skenkja.
Verb
( en verb)
(Scotland) to serve (a drink)
* Shirley
- Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove.
Noun
(obsolete) drink
(obsolete) pottage
- (Francis Bacon)
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