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Darwinite

proper noun

  1. native of or resident of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
  2. follower of Charles Darwin and his theories, especially of evolution; a person who accepts or advocates Darwinism
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From Darwin + -ite.

  1. Synonym of Darwinian.

    Oh, but, guesses our ingenious Darwinite, in this breed the male birds courted the bright-coloured ones and neglected the others, and thus a bright-coloured race has survived by natural selection.

    The appeal to the unknown and the imaginary is the modus operandi of the modern Darwinite.

  2. Synonym of Darwinian.

    Our introduction to the amazing wildfowl in the north was at the end of a forty-mile run, due east of Darwin near the Adelaide River, with Jim Ward, a Darwinite, at the wheel of a highpowered car.

    Australia's north pole has a magnetic charm, and like many others, you could become a permanent statistic — something the locals are proud to call a Darwinite.

  3. A silver-grey arsenide of copper (Cu₁₈As).

    The name Darwinite has been adopted in honour of Darwin, whose admirable geological examination of this part of South America is so well known as to require no comment.

    The mineral Darwinite was proved identical with a mineral which had been about same time found at Lake Superior, and which had been called Whitneyite.