This week's theme: eponyms.

adamite (AD-uh-myt) noun

   1. A nudist.

[After the name of some Christian sects who professed to imitate
the first human, Adam, in not wearing any clothes.]

   2. A human being.

[After Adam, the prototypical human.]

   3. A mineral (zinc arsenate hydroxide) usually yellow and green in color.

[After mineralogist Gilbert Joseph Adam (1795-1881).]

-Anu Garg (gargATwordsmith.org)

  "Among the curious assembly in this utopian community were British
   transcendentalist Charles Lane and his ten-year-old son; Isaac Hecker,
   who founded the Roman Catholic Paulist Fathers; and an adamite."
   Laurie Morrow; The Philosopher's Daughter; The World & I (Washington, DC);
   May 2002.

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