Brewer's: Linnæan; System

A system devised by Linnæus; of Sweden, who arranged his three kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals into classes, orders, genera, species, and varieties, according to certain characteristics.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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