The story
- taxonomic name · learned borrowing frommegalodon
- English todaymegalodon
Learned borrowing from taxonomic name megalodon, from Ancient Greek μεγάλος (megálos, “big”) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”). By surface analysis, megalo- + -odon.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.