A breed of large black Belgian sheepdog; a dog breed originating from Groenendael, a village in Belgium.
Named after Groenendael, the village in Belgium where the breed was developed in the 1880s. Place-name terms for dog breeds follow this pattern worldwide.
All four Belgian sheepdog varieties are named after the villages where they were developed — Groenendael, Tervuren, Mechlenburg, and Malinois — making them geographic living monuments!
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