Darwinites

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
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
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