Meanings
nounLinnaeanism (uncountable)
- uncountableThe Linnaean system of nomenclature.
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.
2000, Daniel R. Headrick, When Information Came of Age, page 26
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