biography
pronunciation:
[adãsõ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1727–1806)
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| biography:
| Botanist, born in Aix-en-Provence, SE France, the first exponent of classification of plants into natural orders, before Linnaeus. His works include Les Familles naturelles des plantes (1763, Natural Families of Plants). The baobab genus of African trees, Adansonia, is named after him. |
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