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Banksian

adj

Etymology

From Banks + -ian.

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist.

  2. Of or pertaining to Iain Banks (born 1954) or his writings, most notably a utopian style…

    Of or pertaining to Iain Banks (born 1954) or his writings, most notably a utopian style of science fiction.

    • Naturally it's compulsive Banksian reading, with lashings of gore, squalor, poison, torture and philosophy.
    • […]the recurring motif of war and its symbolic Banksian appendage, the figure of the castle[…]
    • And it is in the character and story of Abel that this element of Banksian self-parody shows itself most clearly […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA