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Linnaeus

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Lin·nae·us  (l-ns, -n-), Carolus Originally Karl Linné. 1707-1778.
Swedish botanist and founder of the modern classification system for plants and animals.
Linnaeus [lɪˈniːəs -ˈneɪ-]
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(Biographies / Linnaeus, Carolus (1707-1778) M, Swedish, SCIENCE: botanist) Carolus (ˈkærələs), original name Carl von Linné. 1707-78, Swedish botanist, who established the binomial system of biological nomenclature that forms the basis of modern classification
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Noun1.Linnaeus - Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature (1707-1778)Linnaeus - Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature (1707-1778)
Carl von Linne, Carolus Linnaeus, Karl Linne
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, Linnaeus declares, I hereby separate the whales from the fish.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Not so, however, with the disciple of Linnaeus, during the momentous period that it remained a mooted point at the tribunal of his better judgment, whether the stout descendants of the squatter were not likely to dispute his right to traverse the prairie in freedom.
The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
Linnaeus has calculated that if an annual plant produced only two seeds--and there is no plant so unproductive as this--and their seedlings next year produced two, and so on, then in twenty years there would be a million plants.
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