Linus
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noun
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Classical Mythology.
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a musician and poet, the inventor of melody and rhythm, of whom various stories are told: often identified, through his untimely death, with the harvesting or withering of crops and vegetation.
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Also called Linus song. a dirge: originally sung in western Asia to mourn the death of crops being harvested, later sung to mourn the death of Linus or that of Adonis.
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a male given name.
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The lawyer representing the petitioners, Linus Baker, said the ballot initiative concerns a new land use policy, and therefore is legislative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Linus Pauling was a chemist from the United States who won two Nobel Prizes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
"We can't even fill the coffee cups to the brim or they spill," his son Linus, 19, added with an air of amused exasperation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
“There was a teacher in Bell County, just an innocent teacher who put up a Linus cartoon over Christmas that said ‘Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.’
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Rather, if that had occurred Linus would have written two papers, the first describing his new theory, the second showing how it was used to solve the DNA structure.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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