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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FORSYTHIA. Bot. 1. The well-known garden shrub of the family Oleaceae, orig. from China named by M. Vahl Enumeratio (1804) I. 39.
2. Also applied to Decumaria, a kind of lilac by T. Walter Flora Caroliniana (1708). [The pronunciation is fɔr′sɑeθiə]
[From William Forsyth (1737–1804), of Old Meldrum in Abd., Royal gardener in London.]
