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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GREENOCK. After C. M. Cathcart, Lord Greenock and 2nd Earl Cathcart (1783–1859), soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, scientist. Derivs. greenockite, in Geol., hexagonal cadmium sulphide (1840 Edb. New Philosoph. Jnl. XXVIII. 390); greenockii, in Zool., a specif. name of a Pygopterus or fossil fish (1844 J. L. R. Agassiz Poiss. Fossiles II. ii. 78).
