baramin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A set of organisms descended from some originally created species (based on the Biblical doctrine of Special Creation); a kind.

Word forms

baramin baramins

Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew בָּרָא (bārāˀ, “he created”) + מיִן (mīʸn, “kind”) (misunderstood to mean "created kind"), coined by American creationist Frank Lewis Marsh in 1941.

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