eremicus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἐρημία (erēmía, “desert, solitude”) + -icus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛˈreː.mɪ.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eˈrɛː.mi.kus] === Adjective === erēmicus (feminine erēmica, neuter erēmicum); first/second-declension adjective (relational, New Latin, biology) desert, wasteland ==== Usage notes ==== Used almost exclusively as a taxonomic epithet and thus not normally in inflected forms other than the nominative singular. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Related terms ==== erēmīta ==== Descendants ==== Translingual: Eretmocerus eremicus Peromyscus eremicus Eriastrum eremicum === References === William T Stearn (2004), “Vocabulary”, in Botanical Latin, Fourth edition, Portland, OR: Timber Press, →ISBN, page 399