Darwinite

Noun

Darwinite (countable and uncountable, plural Darwinites)

1. One who believes in Darwinian evolution.
   • 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.1879, Henry Strickland Constable, Fashions of the Day in Medicine and Science: A Few More Hints
   • The appeal to the unknown and the imaginary is the modus operandi of the modern Darwinite.1890 September 15, C. Carter Blake, “Our Fallen Brethren”, in Lucifer, volume 7, number 37, page 54
2. Someone from Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
   • 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.1933, Charles Henry Holmes, We Find Australia, page 68
   • 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.1987, Geoffrey Atkinson, Philip Quirk, The Australian adventure
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.1860, D. Forbes, “On Darwinite, a new Mineral Species from Chile”, in Philosophical Magazine, page 423
   • 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.1866, Report of the Thirty-Fifth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science - Volume 35, page 29