Of the ranked naming system for living things — kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. A structure of nested belonging.
Latinised from Linnaeus, the surname a father chose from Swedish lind (a linden tree) that grew on the family's land; the adjective names the ranked kingdom-to-species system the naturalist who bore it devised in the 18th century.
A structure of nested belonging, where every rank sits inside the one above it and holds every rank below.