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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MORISONIA. Bot. A genus of Cappareae, the caper family, from the tropics, called by Linnaeus after Robert Morison (1620–83), of Aberdeen, Professor of Botany at Oxford.
