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Calanus

Calanus

Translingual

Calanus finmarchicus

Proper noun

Calanus m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Calanidae – marine copepods, less than 5mm in length.

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Etymology

Borrowing from Latin Calanus ‎(“an Indian philosopher (gymnosophist) in the time of Alexander the Great, who, in old age, burned himself on a funeral pile”).

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