Comments (Meaning / History Only)
Surnames were not used in Sweden in Linnaeus' time, so when his father enrolled at university he coined the Latinised (the language of academics) surname Linnaeus which referred to a big Linden tree which stood on the family property 'Linnagård' Hence the name could be taken to mean linden (lime) tree.
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The flower is Linnaea, not Linnea, pronounced li-NAY-ah, at least in the US.
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