tandrondro

Malagasy

Etymology

Clipping of sangoritra, variant of sangorina (“to cut”), in reference to its quick thrusting tongue, and rondra (“to crawl”)[1]

Noun

tandrondro

  1. chameleon

References
  1. Hébert, Jean-Claude (1964) “Les noms d'animaux en malgache”, in Civilisation Malgache‎, archived from the original on 13 July 2017, page 299

Further reading
  • tandrondro in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org
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