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adamite

noun

Meaning

  1. A descendant of Adam; a human being.
  2. A zinc arsenate hydroxide mineral, Zn₂AsO₄OH.
  3. A person descended from the biblical Adam.
  4. A member of one of a number of sects which professed to worship God in the same way that Adam did.
  5. Of or pertaining to the Biblical Adam.

Etymology / origin

Named after French mineralogist Gilbert Joseph Adam (1795-1881) in 1866.

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