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canadensis

canadensis

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A Latin word in species names that shows a species comes from Canada
  • noun
  • /ˌkænəˈdɛn.sɪs/
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  • The species name of the eastern hemlock is Tsuga canadensis, reflecting its native habitat in Canada.
  • Castor canadensis
  • Tsuga canadensis
  • Lynx canadensis

Examples

  • The red exudate from bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), for instance, indicates that it should be applied to ailments of the blood.

    Academic text (2018)
  • The scientific name for the common beaver is Castor canadensis, indicating its origin from Canada.

  • Suga canadensis, the eastern hemlock, the Redwood of the east.

  • Once a prolific pest in Europe, E. canadensis has ultimately shown significant decline (Cook 1993).

    Academic text (1996)
  • Subsequent research revealed similar preservation in an even older (about 80-million-year-old) Brachylophosaurus canadensis.

    Blog text (7)
  • Goose (Branta canadensis minima).

    Academic text (2005)
  • One of these processes, dam building by North American beavers (Castor canadensis), generated discontinuities throughout precolonial river systems of northern North America.

    Academic text (2010)
  • Jarrell, R. A., and Yves Gingras. "Building Canadian Science." Scientia Canadensis 15, no. 2 (1991): 1-17.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Whatever the reason for its decline, the case of E. canadensis indicates that exclusive vegetative reproduction in water plants may be insufficient to facilitate long-term adaptation to varying environmental conditions, particularly under dynamic selective regimes.

    Academic text (1996)
  • For instance, in Tennessee, an estimated 0.8-2 million ha of soybean crops are infested with glyphosate-resistant horseweed (C. canadensis) (Heap 2011).

    Academic text (2012)

Compounds

Berberis canadensis
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A small North American bush that loses its leaves in winter with bright red autumn leaves and red berries

Branta canadensis
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A large North American wild goose with grey-brown feathers and a loud call

Canachites canadensis
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A North American bird that lives in spruce forests and eats needles

Cercis canadensis
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A small tree from eastern North America that loses its leaves in winter and has pink flowers in spring

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A large North American deer whose males have big branched antlers

Conyza canadensis
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A common weed with narrow leaves and small yellow-green flowers that grows along roads and fields

Cornus canadensis
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A low creeping plant with white flowers and red berries

Dicentra canadensis
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A woodland plant with pale cream flowers and thick roots shaped like corn kernels

Elodea canadensis
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A water plant from North America with long green stems that grows in ponds

Elymus canadensis
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A tall wild grass from North America with bristly spikes that grows in prairies and open woods

Erigeron canadensis
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A tall weed from North America that lives for one year and has narrow leaves and small yellow flower heads

Anemone canadensis
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A North American forest plant with white flowers that blooms in early summer

Aquilegia canadensis
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A wildflower from eastern North America with red and yellow flowers that have long spurs

Arabis Canadensis
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A North American wildflower with very long curved seed pods

Laportea canadensis
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A plant with stinging hairs that grows in moist shady woods in eastern North America

Linaria canadensis
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A North American plant with clusters of blue-violet flowers, also called blue toadflax

Lutra canadensis
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A North American otter that lives in rivers and lakes and is often found in groups

Lynx canadensis
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A wild cat called the Canada lynx that lives in northern North America

Hydrastis canadensis
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A woodland plant with a thick yellow root used in traditional medicine

Rubus canadensis
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A low bush that makes small edible dark berries and has stems that trail on the ground

Ovis canadensis
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A wild sheep with large curved horns that lives in the mountains of western North America

Perisoreus canadensis
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A small gray bird found in northern forests that takes food from campsites

A small jay with a white head that lives in Rocky Mountain forests

Sambucus canadensis
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A North American bush that makes dark purple berries used to make wine and jam

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A woodland plant with a red root, a single lobed leaf, and a white spring flower

Sitta canadensis
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A small bird with blue-grey back and red breast that lives in northern pine forests

Solidago canadensis
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A tall plant with many small yellow flowers that often grows wild and spreads quickly

Viola canadensis
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A tall wild flower with white petals marked by purple streaks that grows in North American woods

Surface Forms

canadensis singular
canadenses plural

Etymology

Canadensis comes from Latin and means 'from Canada', with the ending -ensis showing 'from' or 'of a place'. So when a plant or animal has canadensis in its scientific name, it tells you the species is originally from Canada.