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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MASSONIA. Bot. A showy genus of amaryllis found in South Africa (1789 W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis I. 405). Also massonianus, specif. form in Pinus massonianus, the matsu or timber pine of Malaysia, China and Japan.
[Named by the younger Linnaeus after Francis Masson (1741–1805), of Aberdeen, the first plant-collector sent out from Kew.]
