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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CARNEGIEA. 1. Bot. (1) A genus of giant cacti, the saguaro, of Arizona (1908 Journal New York Bot. Garden IX. 187); (2) a laurel-like shrub of New Caledonia (1911 Perkins in Pflanzenreich. Nacht. 37).
2. Zool. A kind of coral from China (1907 Girty in Proc. U.S. Nat. Museum XXXIII. 40).
[After Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), of Dunfermline, American millionaire and philanthropist.]
