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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BAIRD. Zool. After William Baird (1803–72), of Eccles in Bwk., physician and zoologist in London. Freq. in derivs. Bairdia, a genus of fossil ostracods (1844 McCoy in Griffith Syn. Carboniferous Fossils 165), also Bairdiacypris, Bairdianella, Bairdites, Bairdiolites, Bairdoppilata, Beratobairdia, other genera of ostracoda.
