The scientific name for that part of a fowl otherwise known as the pope’s nose or the bishop’s nose is uropygium. The Greek root of this word, pyge, meaning “rump,” is also found in the English adjectives callipygian, which means having a shapely butt, and dasypygal, which means having hairy buttocks. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Uropygium”
We were talking earlier about the fatty bump on a turkey that’s sometimes called the Parson’s nose or the pope’s nose or the bishop’s nose.
If you want the scientific term for it, it’s called the Europygian.
The Europygian.
I think I hear similarities to Calipygian in there.
You do.
You do.
Let me spell it for you.
Okay.
U-R-O-P-Y-G-I-U-M.
You’re a pygium.
Pygium.
Okay.
And the pygium part relates to the rump or the rear?
That’s right.
The rump or the rear.
And you’re exactly right.
Calipygian in English means having a beautiful butt.
Okay.
Yeah.
Calipygian.
Yeah.
And for some reason, I don’t know why the pronunciation changes, but the term dasipigel means having a hairy butt.
That’s another scientific term.
A lot of people are writing that word down for later use.
