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Definition of Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
1. Noun. French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836).
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Literary usage of Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
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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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