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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GRANT-DUFFII. Bot. Specif. name of an Iris of India (1893 Baker in Bollet. Soc. Toscana Ortic. XVIII. 209).
[After Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant-Duff (1829–1906), of Eden, Banffshire, Governor of Madras, and botanist.]
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