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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BUCHANAN. After Francis Hamilton Buchanan (1762–1829), of Callander, botanist and zoologist in Calcutta. Derivs. Buchanania, in Bot. a genus of tropical terebinths, order Anacardiaceae (1798 W. Roxburgh Plants Coromandel III. 79); buchanani(i), specif. name of various Eastern Indian fishes, e.g. Panchax, Catla, Pangasius, Rohita (1840–46 Cuvier & Valenciennes Hist. Nat. des Poissons XV. 45, XVII. 411, XVIII. 383), birds and reptiles.
