Linnaeus is a 8 letter English word.
You can make 268 anagrams from letters in Linnaeus (aeilnnsu).
This may have been the reason why the name Punica was selected for the genus by Linnaeus.
That is Esox Lucius, as Linnaeus named him, the common pike.
We must remember, of course, that Linnaeus died as long ago as 1778.
In brief, the work of Linnaeus was constructive, not interpretative.
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Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere school-boys to old Aristotle.
His father was finally induced to educate young Linnaeus as a physician.
Aristotle did make progress beyond earlier philosophers, just as Darwin advanced beyond Linnaeus and Cuvier.
I cared not where Jussieu might have arranged or Linnaeus classed it.
Linnaeus was the greatest systematist in the history of botany.