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indigenous

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the indigenous population formal (= the people who have always lived in a place ) ▪ His new book assesses the impact of Spanish culture on the indigenous population of Mexico. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN church ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Indigenous may refer to: Indigenous (ecology) , presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention Indigenous (band) , an American blues-rock band Indigenous (horse) , a Hong Kong racehorse Indigenous (film) , a 2014 ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. originating where it is found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan" [syn: autochthonal , autochthonic ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context chiefly of living things English) Born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion. (from 17th c.) 2 innate, inborn. (from 19th c.)

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Late Latin indigenus "born in a country, native," from Latin indigena "sprung from the land," as a noun, "a native," literally "in-born," or "born in (a place)," from Old Latin indu "in, within" (earlier endo ) + *gene- , root of gignere (perf. ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indigenous \In*dig"e*nous\, a. [L. indigenus, indigena, fr. OL. indu (fr. in in) + the root of L. gignere to beget, bear. See In , and Gender .] Native; produced, growing, or living, naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; not imported. Negroes were ...

Usage examples of indigenous.

They had preyed upon the indigenous fisherfolk, too, before the Aedile had arrived and put a stop to it.

There was food at Aquarius Station, about thirty kilometers to the north of the mountain range, and the indigenous amphibians that inhabited the swamps were edible when they could be caught and killed.

Also, while the samples do contain magnetites, we question whether any indigenous archaea or nanobacteria would evolve to produce rnagnetites when Mars has a magnetic field so slight that it could not be registered for biological use.

As I drew nearer I noticed for the first time that it was not the common nightshade, which grew wild about the country, but was the atropa, a plant not indigenous to California.

Three indigenous fig trees dwarfed the buildings, crimson frangipani burst like fireworks against the green kikuyu grass, beds of bright barber ton daisies ringed the gentle terraces that fell away to the stream, and a bougainvillaea creeper smothered the main building in a profusion of dark green and purple.

Yage, Ayuahuasca, Pilde, Nateema are Indian names for Bannisteria Caapi, a fast growing vine indigenous to the Amazon region.

In Dorsetshire there is no evidence of an indigenous example having occurred since that date, nor in Hampshire nor Sussex since the opening of the 19th century.

Newcastle had been more than forty-five years in the cabinet, and this utter disregard to money-making exhibits his patriotism in a strong light: few would have served their country so long without well replenishing their coffers, especially at that age, when the virtues of disinterestedness and self-abnegation were exotic rather than indigenous to the human heart.

That is, they do not ascribe those events to the actions of an indigenous or extraplanetary agency.

Townsfolk do not learn an indigenous African language other than Afrikaans and sometimes a language developed for use in the mines, known as Fanagalo, which is a mixture of several African languages as well as Afrikaans and English.

A few buildings, connected to the indigenous Feeds, were still lit up.

Colonel Mauricio Primitivo of the Mexican federal army saw it, oppression of the indigenous peoples of Mexico had been a mistake most terrible.

Coatlicue was ultimately found at the ruined city of Teotihaucan, which had been been built by a race who came before the Aztecs who founded Mexico City, even before the lowland Maya and the highland Zapotecs, Mixtec and other indigenous peoples who roamed the epochs of old Mexico before the cruel Spaniards came.

But no Pedometrician will ever make a fortune in a mountainous island, like Great Britain, where pedestrianism is indigenous to the soil.

The palmers and the bandits, the cateran who had tried to kill him, Iachimo and the rogue star-sailor and its creatures, the two pythonesses of the Department of Vaticination, the old guard, Coronetes, and all the clerks and soldiers in the Department of Indigenous Affairs, the mage and the soldiers who had taken the peel-house, the traitor Torin, the Constable of Aeolis and his sons and the mob, Prefect Corin and the crew of the picketboat, Dr.