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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MACCLELLANDIA. Bot. A genus of plants of Eastern India of the family Lythraceae, the loosestrife (1853 R. Wight Icon. Plant. Indiae Orient. VI. 14).
[From John MacClelland (†1883), Scottish surgeon and naturalist in Bengal.]