A Latin scientific term meaning 'of or from Greenland,' used in species names and taxonomic classifications.
From Latin Groenlandia (Greenland) plus the adjectival suffix -icus. Created during the age of Linnaean taxonomy when Latin was the universal language of science.
Scientists in the 1700s-1800s had to invent Latin words for places like Greenland! You'll see groenlandicus in species names like the Greenland shark—a reminder that science was once truly international through Latin.
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