I think of a broad category of items including strawberry seeds, mustard seeds, sunflower seeds, mango seeds and other "pit"s, up to coconut seeds. I think "sunflower seed" would have been a better comparison, as its something a person can actually visualize, not a 3 order of magnitude spanning category.

The average person thinks of a mustard seed or some other small seed. I also think you know this and are being pedantic.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

It’s just meant to give a rough visual. The article provides the exact length.

It fails to give a rough visual, though. The picture of it on a fingertip is much better for that.

Fingertips vary in size as well if you want to be maximally pedantic.

Yeah, but not through nearly as many orders of magnitude as "seeds".

If you leave out massive outliers like coconuts (which I highly suspect are not what 99.9% of people think of when they think of "seeds"—I realize that's not the case for you), I think the variation would actually be quite similar.

Poppy seed to mango seed are all "reasonable" seeds IMO. And that's a pretty darn large range, I'd expect almost all chameleons to fall within it.