OK, You are my last hope! Hopefully one or more of our smart members will be able to help. I need to know the meaning of the word “coptonogonus”, which is part of a scientific name…Stenocactus coptonogonus.
I’ve tried my limited Latin and Greek dictionaries, but have run into a blank wall. So your help is appreciated.
Thanks for your efforts.
coptonogonus surely is Greek. It seems to me it refers to a characteristic that has to do with being toothed or having a milled edge or similar.
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Silly! It was discovered by Jim “Needles” Coptonogonus. You know, of the Boston Coptonogonuses? He went on to a distinguished military career, where he was Captain Coptonogonus.
The term gonorrhea (gonus meaning seed, rhoia meaning flow) was coined by …
Working from squink’s reference to “gonus=seed,” and from “copped a feel,” coptogonus might mean “acheived an ejaculation.” 