Definition of Antoine Laurent de Jussieu

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

Exact synonyms: Jussieu
Generic synonyms: Botanist, Phytologist, Plant Scientist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antoine Laurent De Jussieu

Antiquity
Antirion
Antirrhinum
Antirrhinum coulterianum
Antirrhinum filipes
Antirrhinum majus
Antirrio
Antirrion
Antivert
Antlia
Antofagasta
Antoine
Antoine Domino
Antoine Henri Becquerel
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (current term)
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoinette
Anton
Anton's syndrome
Anton-Babinski syndrome
Anton Bruckner
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekov
Anton Gregor Rubinstein
Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekov
Anton Piller order
Anton Piller orders

Literary usage of Antoine Laurent de Jussieu

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Magazine of Zoology and Botany by Sir William Jardine, Prideaux John Selby, George Johnston (1838)
"... of Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. By M. AD. BRONGNIART. * THE History of Science shows us that there are men who have been occupied during their whole life ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(4) ANTOINE-LAURENT DE JUSSIEU (botanical abbreviation, Juss.), nephew of the above-mentioned three brothers, b. at Lyons, 12 April, 1748; d. at Paris, ..."

3. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1837)
"Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, a name singularly illustrious in the annals of botanical science, was born at Lyons in 1748. He was nephew to the great Bernard ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly (1891)
"... in the very year of his death, 1778, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu began writing his Genera Plantarum, which contained the proposed classification. ..."

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