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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RELLIMIA. Bot. A genus of fossil plants of the Devonian period, orig. named Milleria but, to avoid confusion with another Milleria, renamed Rellimia by Leclerq and Bonamo, 1973, in Taxon XXII. 435.
[From Miller, spelt backwards, after Hugh Miller (1802–56), of Cromarty, the famous geologist.]
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