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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CARMICHAEL. From Dugald Carmichael (1772–1827), of Lismore, soldier and botanist in the South Atlantic and Pacific area. Derivs.: Carmichaelia, in Bot., a New Zealand leguminous shrub also called Striaria (1825 R. Brown in Bot. Reg. XI. 912); in form Carmichaelis, in Zool., as the specif. name of various molluses, Chiton, Plaxiphora, from Tierra del Fuego, and Acanthopleura, of a South Pacific fish, Cheilodactylus (1830 Cuvier & Valenciennes Hist. Nat. des Poissons V. 360), also Carmichaelii, of a Medeterus (1849 List Dipterae Coll. Brit. Mus. (3) 654).
