Charles Darwin
Naturalist, 1809-1882
Cited as Darwin. — 32 quotations
Aberrant
The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.
Aboriginal
It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.
Absorbent
The ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat.
Accordant
Strictly accordant with true morality.
Analyze
No one, I presume, can analyze the sensations of pleasure or pain.
Anomaly
As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly.
Approbation
Animals . . . love approbation or praise.
Arboreal
Woodpeckers are eminently arboreal.
Artful
The artful revenge of various animals.
Ashamed
An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of those present.
Atmospheric
The lower atmospheric current.
Babble
The babble of our young children.
Backbone
The lofty mountains on the north side compose the granitic axis, or backbone of the country.
Buoy
Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed.
Caudal
The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes.
Coloration
The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration.
Condition
The new conditions of life.
Considerably
The breeds . . . differ considerably from each other.
Consort
The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort.
Curvature
The elegant curvature of their fronds.
Death
At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts.
Dimorphism
Dimorphism is the condition of the appearance of the same species under two dissimilar forms.
Discommunity
Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent.
Flowerer
Many hybrids are profuse and persistent flowerers.
Geologize
During midsummer geologized a little in Shropshire.
Hollow
The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence.
Instinct
The resemblance between what originally was a habit, and an instinct becomes so close as not to be distinguished.
Intercross
We have reason to believe that occasional intercrosses take place with all animals and plants.
Oceanic
Petrels are the most aerial and oceanic of birds.
Polygamous
Most deer, cattle, and sheep are polygamous.
Strain
With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring.
Varietal
Perplexed in determining what differences to consider as specific, and what as varietal.