Linnaeus is an English word with synonyms like botanist. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Linnaeus in a sentence
Linnaeus meaning
Carl (or the latinized Carolus) Linnaeus, also known as Carl von Linné, Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy."
Synonyms of Linnaeus
Using Linnaeus
- The main meaning on this page is: Carl (or the latinized Carolus) Linnaeus, also known as Carl von Linné, Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy."
- Useful related words include: carolus linnaeus, carl von linne, karl linne, botanist.
- In the example corpus, linnaeus often appears in combinations such as: carl linnaeus, linnaeus in, linnaeus was.
Context around Linnaeus
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 8 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Linnaeus
- In this selection, "linnaeus" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, additionally, education, ennoblement, father, inscribed and continued stand out and add context to how "linnaeus" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include according to linnaeus own explanation and according to linnaeus system. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "linnaeus" sits close to words such as anthropologists, archived and awakens, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with linnaeus
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Additionally, Linnaeus was a state interventionist. (6 words)
After his return, Linnaeus never left Sweden again. (8 words)
Artedi contributed to Linnaeus's refinement of the principles of taxonomy. (11 words)
Publishing of Systema Naturae main One of the first scientists Linnaeus met in the Netherlands was Johan Frederik Gronovius to whom Linnaeus showed one of the several manuscripts he had brought with him from Sweden. (35 words)
Linnaeus tried to debunk some of these creatures, as he had with the hydra; regarding the purported remains of dragons, Linnaeus wrote that they were either derived from lizards or rays. (31 words)
Early education Linnaeus' father began teaching him basic Latin, religion, and geography at an early age. citation When Linnaeus was seven, Nils decided to hire a tutor for him. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
Early education Linnaeus' father began teaching him basic Latin, religion, and geography at an early age. citation When Linnaeus was seven, Nils decided to hire a tutor for him.
Linnaeus inscribed this personal motto in books that were gifted to him by friends. citation After his ennoblement, Linnaeus continued teaching and writing.
Linnaeus tried to debunk some of these creatures, as he had with the hydra; regarding the purported remains of dragons, Linnaeus wrote that they were either derived from lizards or rays.
Publishing of Systema Naturae main One of the first scientists Linnaeus met in the Netherlands was Johan Frederik Gronovius to whom Linnaeus showed one of the several manuscripts he had brought with him from Sweden.
Tärnström's widow blamed Linnaeus for making her children fatherless, causing Linnaeus to prefer sending out younger, unmarried students after Tärnström.
University studies Lund Statue of Linnaeus as a University student in Lund Rothman showed Linnaeus that botany was a serious subject.
Those limitations have grown only more obvious with time, because, for all intents and purposes, the world as Linnaeus described it no longer exists.
She is credited with naming and cataloging hundreds of native plants in the Hudson River Valley using Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus’ then-new binomial system of botanical nomenclature.
The fixation on altering this arthropod’s name might have confounded even Linnaeus.
Abroad, the apostles collected and organised new plants, animals and minerals according to Linnaeus' system.
According to Linnaeus' own explanation, the name was selected because of the nocturnal activity and slow movements of the slender loris.
Additionally, Linnaeus created a wastebasket taxon "monstrosus" for "wild and monstrous humans, unknown groups, and more or less abnormal people".
Additionally, Linnaeus was a state interventionist.
After his return, Linnaeus never left Sweden again.
After such criticism, Linnaeus felt he needed to explain himself more clearly.
After the decline in Linnaeus' health in the early 1770s, publication of editions of Systema Naturae went in two different directions.
Also a botanist, Rothman broadened Linnaeus' interest in botany and helped him develop an interest in medicine.
Around 10 editions were published, not all of them by Linnaeus himself; the most important is the 1754 fifth edition.
Artedi contributed to Linnaeus's refinement of the principles of taxonomy.
As much as this may have upset the mayor, Linnaeus made his observations public and the mayor's dreams of selling the hydra for an enormous sum were ruined.
Common combinations with linnaeus
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- carl linnaeus 16×
- linnaeus in 10×
- linnaeus was 8×
- by linnaeus 8×
- linnaeus to 5×
- of linnaeus 5×
- linnaeus had 5×
- linnaeus described 4×
- linnaeus and 4×
- linnaeus as 3×