Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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CLEGHORNIA. Bot. A genus of Apocynaceae, the dogbane family, from Malaya and Indo-China (1848 R. Wight Icon. Plant. Indiae Orient. IV. 310).
[After Hugh F. C. Cleghorn (1820–95), of Fife, Professor of Botany at Madras.]
