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Linnaean

//lɪˈneɪ.ən// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish naturalist, either personally or in a wider sense, to the era influenced by him. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Of or relating to the binomial nomenclature originated by him not-comparable

    "Nowhere was the victory of Linnaeanism more complete than in Britain. When William Hudson's Flora Anglica, organized in the Linnaean manner, appeared in 1762, it displaced all previous floras."

  3. 3
    Relating to the nomenclature Codes that have their starting point in a work by Linnaeus or are derived from such a Code. This includes the idea of a ranked taxonomy, which was not initiated by Linnaeus. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to Linnaeus or to the system of taxonomic classification that Linnaeus proposed wordnet

Etymology

From Linnaeus + -an. After Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778), Swedish naturalist who helped to standardize biological nomenclature.

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