Full record for earthborn n.

Definition	People born on the Earth
OED requirements	antedating 1940
Earliest cite	Malcolm Jameson, "Quicksands of Youthwardness"
Comment	Malcolm Farmer submitted a 1974 cite from John Varley's "Picnic on Nearside". Fred Galvin submitted a 1954 cite from "Needle and Thread" by Richard P. Ennis. Fred Galvin submitted a 1940 cite from "Quicksands of Youthwardness" by Malcolm Jameson Malcolm Farmer submitted a cite from a 1984 reprint of George Zebrowski's "The Omega Point Trilogy" Fred Galvin submitted a 1959 cite from a magazine, "GALAC-TICKS" Besides antedatings, we would like further cites from any date
Last modified	5 August, 2009

Citations for earthborn n.

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1940 M. Jameson Quicksands of Youthwardness in Astonishing Stories Oct. 20/2	Welcome to Athanata [‥] the Planet of the Immortals. Gladly we receive the noble Earthborn, for like you, our pioneers fell from out the sky.
1941 Cosmic Stories July	Venusian natives were warned off the streets; henceforth none but the Earthborn could show their faces by daylight.
1974 J. Varley Picnic on Nearside in Mag. Fantasy & Sci. Fiction Aug. 101/2	They say that's what drove people to the Farside: the constant reminder of what they had lost, always there in the sky. It must have been hard, especially to the Earthborn. Whatever the reason, no-one had lived on the Nearside for almoost a century. All the original settlements had dwindled as people had moved to the comforting empty sky of Farside.
1988 R. Silverberg We are for Dark in Coll. Stories (1993)II. 357	We have some Earthborn here, still.
1991 O. S. Card Xenocide ii. 22	It's getting into the Earthborn crops that humans need in order to survive on Lusitania.