Darwinite noun4 •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 •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 •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 •Synonym of Darwinian. formsDarwinites
