Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 14 compound words that contain darwin. The most common are listed below. Open darwin in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- Darwin AwardOne of the international honours awarded to people who supposedly help to improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it in a spectacularly stupid manner.
- Darwin DayThe date of February 12, an annual celebration of the birth of Charles Darwin in 1809.
- Darwin fishA symbol, portrayed as a fish with legs, used to indicate support for the scientific theory of evolution as being the cause of species diversification, rather than biblical creationism.
- Darwin stubbyA 2.25 litre bottle of beer, today made principally as a tourist novelty.
- Darwin driftThe phenomenon by which a fluid parcel is permanently displaced after the passage of a body through a fluid – the fluid being at rest far away from the body.
- Darwin Awardsplural of Darwin Award: One of the international honours awarded to people who supposedly help to improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it in a spectacularly stupid manner.
- Darwin glassA form of natural glass found south of Queenstown in West Coast, Tasmania.
- Darwin outTo remove (a person) from the gene pool when they engage in foolish, thoughtless, or reckless behavior.
- Darwin glassesplural of Darwin glass: A form of natural glass found south of Queenstown in West Coast, Tasmania.
- Darwin fishesplural of Darwin fish: A symbol, portrayed as a fish with legs, used to indicate support for the scientific theory of evolution as being the cause of species diversification, rather than biblical creationism.
- Darwin ringletsplural of Darwin ringlet: A subspecies of the orange ringlet butterfly, Hypocysta adiante antirius, endemic to the Darwin region of northern Australia.
- Darwin ringletA subspecies of the orange ringlet butterfly, Hypocysta adiante antirius, endemic to the Darwin region of northern Australia.
- Darwin stubbiesplural of Darwin stubby: A 2.25 litre bottle of beer, today made principally as a tourist novelty.
- Knight-Darwin lawThe observation that no organism fertilizes itself for an eternity of generations.
Compound words 14
- DarwinianSenses relating to Charles and Erasmus Darwin.
- DarwinismCharles Darwin's theory regarding the evolution of living organisms through natural selection (set out chiefly in his works On the Origin of Species, 1859; and The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 1871); also, belief in …
- DarwiniteSynonym of Darwinian: Senses relating to Charles and Erasmus Darwin.
- autodarwinateTo kill oneself in a foolish manner.
- DarwinizeTo cause to conform to Darwinism.
- millidarwinA unit of evolutionary change equivalent to one thousandth of a darwin.
- DarwinicSynonym of Darwinian (“of or pertaining to the scientific views advanced by Charles Darwin”).
- DarwinizationThe act or process of Darwinizing.
- DarwinicalSynonym of Darwinian (“of or pertaining to the scientific views advanced by Charles Darwin”).
- DarwinistA believer in Darwinism, the theory of evolution by natural selection.