Greenland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːn.lənd/
ipa: /ˈɡɹiːn.lænd/
Etymology: From green + land, calque of Old Norse Grǿnland, from grǿnn (“green”) + land (“land”).
Senses: glosses: A large self-governing dependent territory of Denmark, in North America.
examples: text: To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.
ref: 1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28:
glosses: The ice-covered island on which it is located, the largest island in the world (not counting Australia).
glosses: Spitzbergen, another island in Europe formerly thought to have been part of Greenland.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Arkansas.
glosses: A village in Barbados.
glosses: A ghost town in California.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Colorado.
glosses: A town in New Hampshire.
glosses: A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Sisyrinchium groenlandicum
word: Greenland blue-eyed grass
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Brachythecium groenlandicum
word: Greenland brachythecium moss
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Ranunculus auricomus
word: Greenland buttercup
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Gadus macrocephalus ogac
word: Greenland cod
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Ochrolechia groenlandica
word: Greenland crabseye lichen
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Cladonia cornuta subsp. groenlandica
word: Greenland cup lichen
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Dicranum groenlandicum
word: Greenland dicranum moss
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Cepphus grylle
word: Greenland dove
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
word: Greenlander
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Falco candicans
word: Greenland falcon
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Falco rusticolus
word: Greenland gerfalcon
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
word: Greenlandic
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
word: Greenlandish
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
word: Greenlandite
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
word: Greenlandman
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Caloplaca groenlandica
word: Greenland orange lichen
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Papaver nudicaule
word: Greenland poppy
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Balaena mysticetus
word: Greenland right whale
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
word: Greenland rim lichen (Lecanora groenlandica
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
word: Greenland Sea
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Pagophilus groenlandicus
word: Greenland seal
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Somniosus microcephalus
word: Greenland shark
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Stereocaulon groenlandicum
word: Greenland snow lichen
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
word: Greenland spar
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Mononeuria groenlandica
word: Greenland stitchwort
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Cepphus grylle
word: Greenland turtle
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Balaena mysticetus
word: Greenland whale
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
word: Greenland white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons flavirostris
sense: Terms derived from Greenland
taxonomic: Canis lupus orion
word: Greenland wolf