Linnaeus

How To Use Linnaeus In A Sentence

• Founded in 1788, it takes its name from the great Swedish naturalist, Carl Linnaeus, who promoted the binominal system that is used today for naming all plants and animals.
• It is not to be supposed that one could occupy one's self with the animals for so long without coming to some conclusion as to their systematic place, however subsidiary to observation such considerations must always be regarded, and it seems to me (although on such matters I can of course only speak with the greatest hesitation) that just as the more minute and careful observations made upon the old "Vermes" of Linnaeus necessitated the breaking up of that class into several very distinct classes, so more careful investigation requires the breaking up of Cuvier's "Radiata" (which succeeded the "Vermes" as a sort of zoological lumber-room) into several very distinct and well-defined new classes, of which the Acalephae, Hydrostatic Acalephae, actinoid and hydroid polypes, will form one. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
• The word larva is first recorded in English in its scientific sense in 1768, although it had been used in its “spirit” sense in 1651 in a way that foreshadowed the usage by Linnaeus. Unmasking religion
• HIRSUTA of Linnaeus, with its spikes of reflexed hairy pods, was common; and also the MOSCHOSMA POLYSTACHYUM. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
• When he took up the word aphis, first used by Linnaeus, he wrote to the Linnaean Society to ask its origin. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
• One can truly speak of nomenclatural chaos, even though Linnaeus's binomial system was widely employed.
• The grounds upon which Linnaeus would fain have banished the whales from the waters, he states as follows: “On account of their warm bilocular heart, their lungs, their moveable eyelids, their hollow ears, penem intrantem feminam mammis lactantem,” and finally, “ex lege naturae jure meritoque.” Moby Dick; or the Whale
• If Linnaeus hadn't busied himself so much with the sex lives of plants and paid some attention to the livelier and certainly slimier sexual escapades of slugs, he certainly would have corrected his little mistake. Archive 2009-01-01
• The term Family was interposed between Order and Genus, in keeping with Linnaeus' conception of the divine society of nature.
• Yet Linnaeus was delighted with Osbeck's journal, which described novel plants, harbor boats filled with hundreds of ducks trained to come and go on command, and a populace with the nasty habit of throwing rocks at him while he botanized. Brotherhood of the Butterfly Net