AFRICAN CHAMELEON Synonyms

• large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters

• any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless

• large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America

• relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail

• a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him

• any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms

• only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand

• a chameleon found in Africa