adamite
noun
Meaning
- A descendant of Adam; a human being.
- A zinc arsenate hydroxide mineral, Zn₂AsO₄OH.
- A person descended from the biblical Adam.
- A member of one of a number of sects which professed to worship God in the same way that Adam did.
- Of or pertaining to the Biblical Adam.
Etymology / origin
Named after French mineralogist Gilbert Joseph Adam (1795-1881) in 1866.
Related words
Descendant words
- адамит(Bulgarian) (cog)
- adamiitti(Finnish) (cog)
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