baramin

English

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.

Noun

baramin (plural baramins)

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

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