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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PRINGLEA. Bot. A kind of brassica called the Kerguelen cabbage from its being found there (1845 J. Anderson in J. D. Hooker Flora Antarctica II. 90), species antiscorbutica.
[After John Pringle (1707–82), of Stitchil in Roxburghshire, Army medical chief, writer on scurvy.]
