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What does Linnaean mean?

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Adjective
  1. (biology) Of, or relating to Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish naturalist, either personally (i.e. "a Linnaean name") or in a wider sense, of the era influenced by him
  2. (taxonomy) Of, or relating to the binomial nomenclature originated by him
  3. (recent) 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.
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Of all the turkey's misnomers, the official Linnaean name from 1758 must qualify as the wrongest: Meleagris gallopavo gallopavo.
Meanwhile he cultivated his taste for natural history, and was in 1796 elected a fellow of the Linnaean Society.
In the Linnaean taxonomy, everything is, to begin with, a member of a kingdom.
At Oxford University he developed a passion for botany, but finding no-one who could instruct him adequately, he hired a tutor who taught him the new Linnaean precepts.
The first Part related to the Phanerogams only, arranged according to the Linnaean system.
Despite the fact that traces are not organisms the Linnaean binomial scheme is used to name them, but only to the level of ichnogenus and ichnospecies.

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