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Antoine Laurent de Jussieu   Listen
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu

noun
1.
French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836).  Synonym: Jussieu.





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... name given by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789 to the lowest class in his Natural System of Botany, embracing flowerless plants, such as ferns, lycopods, horse-tails, mosses, liverworts, sea-weeds, lichens and fungi. The name is derived from the absence of a seed-leaf or cotyledon. Flowering ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


Words linked to "Antoine Laurent de Jussieu" :   botanist, phytologist, Jussieu, plant scientist


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