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DARWIN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provincial capital of the Northern Territory of Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

provincial capital (the capital city of a province)

Holonyms ("Darwin" is a part of...):

Northern Territory (a territory in north central Australia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)

Synonyms:

Charles Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin; Darwin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

natural scientist; naturalist (a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology))

Derivation:

Darwinian (of or relating to Charles Darwin's theory of organic evolution)

Credits

 Context examples: 

“You have read Darwin,” I said. “But you read him misunderstandingly when you conclude that the struggle for existence sanctions your wanton destruction of life.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You persecute the prophets! Galileo! Darwin, and I— (Prolonged cheering and complete interruption.)

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And so with Darwin.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Some of them were discovered by English naturalist Charles Darwin.

(Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands, Wikinews)

When Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands during his Voyage of the Beagle in 1835, he could famously get close enough to throw his hat over the birds.

(A decade after the predators have gone, Galapagos Island finches are still being spooked, University of Cambridge)

There were scientific works, too, among which were represented men such as Tyndall, Proctor, and Darwin.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Researchers from Princeton University in the United States and Uppsala University in Sweden reported the new species evolved in just two generations, though this process had been believed to take much longer, due to breeding between an endemic Darwin finch, Geospiza fortes, and the immigrant cactus finch, Geospiza conirostris.

(Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands, Wikinews)

Half an hour later I was seated in the newspaper office with a huge tome in front of me, which had been opened at the article Weissmann versus Darwin, with the sub heading, Spirited Protest at Vienna. Lively Proceedings.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)