Bot. [mod.L.; so named by Gronovius, 1749, after the Swedish naturalist C. F. Linné, better known by his latinized name Linnæus.] A slender evergreen flowering plant (L. borealis, N.O. Caprifoliaceæ) of the north temperate and frigid zones.
1862. H. Marryat, Year in Sweden, II. 227. The linnæa loads the air with its perfume. Ibid., 396. The forest is here carpeted with the linnæa.
