Potanthus

== Translingual == === Etymology === From either Latin pōtus (“drink, drinking; drunken, drained; intoxicated”, noun or adjective) or Ancient Greek ποτός (potós, “for drinking; drinkable”) / Ancient Greek ποτόν (potón, “drink, beverage”) (either way from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃- (“to drink”, verb)) + Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́νθος (ắnthos, “flower”). Interpretable as "flower-drinker." Coined by American entomologist and paleontologist Samuel Hubbard Scudder in 1872. === Proper noun === Potanthus m or f A taxonomic genus within the family Hesperiidae – the darts, certain skippers. ==== Translations ==== === See also === Potanthus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Potanthus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Potanthus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons