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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HORNEA. Bot. A genus of Middle Devonian rhizomatous plants found at Rhynie in Abd. (1917 Kidston & Lang in Trans. Royal Soc. Edb. LI. 761).
[After John Horne (1848–1928), of Campsie, Director of the Geol. Survey, Scot.]