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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TRAQUAIR. Zool. After Ramsay H. Traquair (1840–1912), of Rhynd in Per., Professor of Zoology, Dublin, Keeper in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Derivs. Traquairia, (1) a fossil protozoon (1872 Carruthers in Quart. Jnl. Micros. Soc. XII. 397); (2) a fossil fish of the Upper Carboniferous era in Europe (1889 A. Fritsch Fauna Gaskohle in Böhmen III. 50), now called Traquairichthys (1933 Whitley Copeia 146); Traquairaspis, a fossil fish (1932 J. Kjaer in Skrift. Svalbard Ishavet LII. 26).
