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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MOINIAN, adj. Geol. Referring to a series of granulose metamorphosed sediments, supposedly of Torridon sandstone, covering a large area in North-West Scotland (1888 Peach and Horne in Quarterly Jnl. Geol. Soc. XLIV. 378).
[From Gael. moine, a peat-moss.]
