Instead of being offended at the obvious joke, I’m way more disappointed that he thinks that the actual source of the name is a flower… It is named after the Greek word for “mantle”, “Chlamys”, [because its discoverers thought it was a mantled protozoan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlamydia_trachomatis#History).
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The casus belli is at [1:02](https://youtu.be/zfcB2q0_hAI?t=62)
Instead of being offended at the obvious joke, I’m way more disappointed that he thinks that the actual source of the name is a flower… It is named after the Greek word for “mantle”, “Chlamys”, [because its discoverers thought it was a mantled protozoan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlamydia_trachomatis#History).