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Banksian
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English
Etymology
en :af Banks -ian + 1
Adjective
en botany Of or pertaining to Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist.
Of or pertaining to Iain Banks (born 1954) or his writings, most notably a utopian style of science fiction.
en 2003 David Langford Up Through an Empty House of Stars 214 Naturally it's compulsive Banksian reading, with lashings of gore, squalor, poison, torture and philosophy.
en 2007 Ian Brown The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature 255 the recurring motif of war and its symbolic Banksian appendage, the figure of the castle
Books in Scotland (issues 63-68, page 4)
And it is in the character and story of Abel that this element of Banksian self-parody shows itself most clearly
Derived terms
Banksian pine
Banksian rose
en eponyms