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  • proper noun A surname.

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  • noun Scottish physician who discovered that elephantiasis is spread by mosquitos and suggested that mosquitos also spread malaria (1844-1922)

Etymologies

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An Anglicised version of the Scandinavian name Magnusson, "son of Magnus".

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