• bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 month ago

    What is this meme talking about?

    The name of order Pholidota comes from Ancient Greek Φολιδωτός – “clad in scales” from φολίς pholís “scale”.

    The name “pangolin” comes from the Malay word pengguling meaning “one who rolls up” from guling or giling “to roll”;

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin#Etymology

    Constantine Rafinesque (1821) formed the Neo-Latin generic name Phataginus from the French term phatagin, adopted by Count Buffon (1763) after the reported local name phatagin or phatagen used in the East Indies.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phataginus