Etymology

baramin

B3A1R1A1M3I1N1

Today it means: A set of organisms descended from some originally created species (based on the Biblical doctrine of Special Creation); a kind. Full definition →

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The story

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.