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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RUSSELIA. Bot. A genus of leafless Mexican plants of the figwort order (1763 N. J. Jacquin Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist. 179).
[From Alexander Russell (1715–68), of Edinburgh, doctor in Aleppo, writer on materia medica.]
