definition of Linnaeus, Carolus in Oxford dictionary (British & World English)

• (1707–78), Swedish botanist, founder of modern systematic botany and zoology; Latinized name of Carl von Linné. He devised an authoritative classification system for flowering plants involving binomial Latin names (later superseded by that of Antoine Jussieu), and also a classification method for animals.

Derivatives

Linnaean

(also Linnean) adjective & noun

More example sentences

• As is often the case with Linnean genera, the concept of Valeriana was wide and included all 16 species of Valerianaceae known at that time.
• The core of the poem involves Darwin's playfully personified yet careful description of many flowering plants found in Linnaean taxonomy.
• Not only did it identify about a thousand species of plants and 464 genera, it helped to overturn the established Linnean system of botanical taxonomy.