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banksian | banks | Derived terms |

Banksian is a derived term of banks.


As an adjective banksian

is (botany) of or pertaining to , english botanist and naturalist.

As a proper noun banks is

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banksian

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (botany) Of or pertaining to , English botanist and naturalist.
  • Of or pertaining to (born 1954) or his writings, most notably a utopian style of science fiction.
  • * 2003 , David Langford, Up Through an Empty House of Stars (page 214)
  • Naturally it's compulsive Banksian reading, with lashings of gore, squalor, poison, torture and philosophy.
  • * 2007 , Ian Brown, The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (page 255)
  • * 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

    * * English eponyms

    banks

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (bank)
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