LINNAEAN


Meaning of LINNAEAN in English

adjective

or lin·ne·an -ēən

Usage: usually capitalized

Etymology: probably from (assumed) New Latin linnaeanus, from Linnaeus + Latin -anus -an

: of, relating to, or following the method of the Swedish botanist Carl von Linné who established the system of binomial nomenclature

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