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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TAITIA. Zool. A fossil of uncertain identification from the Pentland Hills, poss. a medusoid (1930 R. Crookall in Proc. Royal Soc. Edb. L. 75).
[After David Tait (1869–1943), of Edinburgh, of the Geol. Survey of Scotland.]
