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Autochthon
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indigene
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Word definitions for indigene in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indigene \In"di*gene\, n. [L. indigena: cf. F. indig[`e]ne. See Indigenous .] One born in a country; an aboriginal animal or plant; an autochthon. --Evelyn. Tylor.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who was born in a particular place; an indigenous person [syn: native , indigen ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s (adj.); 1660s (n.); from French indigène (16c.), from Latin indigena "sprung from the land," as a noun, "a native," literally "in-born" (see indigenous ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context obsolete English) indigenous. n. An indigenous person; a native.
Usage examples of indigene.
When the wrapping had reached as far as his knee, Joseph released the Indigene from its task and finished the job himself, winding the bandage upward and upward until it terminated at the fleshiest part of his thigh.
It had actually been interesting to live among the northern Indigenes, not just a fugitive but also an observer studying the folkways of this intelligent and appealing race, but that was over, now.
The carriers and those who traveled in them had been described to the southern indigenes by those braves Arsen had projected back down to a place near their homelands and, more recently, by Soaring Eagle and his runners, so the arrival of Arsen, Mike, Simon, and Two-hand-killer was not openly remarked upon by the gathered elders and warriors, though Arsen was willing to bet that every one of them was curious as old hell.
Nor was it possible that the Indigenes, weary after thousands of years of the occupation of their world by settlers from Old Earth, had decided finally to take back their planet.
They were innately unwarlike, were the Indigenes: trees would sing and frogs would write dictionaries sooner than the Indigenes would begin raising their hands in violence.
He wanted to believe that there would be friendly Indigenes just beyond these woods who would convey him obligingly to Ludbrek House, where he would be greeted like a long-lost brother, taken in and bathed and fed and sheltered, and after a time sent on his way by private flier to his home in Helikis.
There came a thinning of the forest, which led Joseph to think that he might be leaving the woods and approaching the village of Indigenes that Thustin had said lay on the far side.
The race known as Indigenes, though they were more nearly humanoid in appearance than any of the others and were undoubtedly the most intelligent, had never shown any impulse toward dominance whatsoever, so that they could not really be regarded as the species that had ruled this world before the first humans came.
He told the creature, speaking slowly and carefully in Indigene, that he was a solitary traveler searching for a nearby village of Indigenes where he hoped to take refuge from trouble among his own people.
When things were somewhat clear again he realized that he was lying atop a pile of furs within one of the Indigene houses, with a little ring of Indigenes sitting facing him in a circle, staring at him solemnly and with what appeared to be a show of deep interest.
According to his father, the Indigenes had an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal remedies, and many of them were said to be great merit.
There was a settlement of Indigenes just at the border of the Keilloran lands, and his father had taken him to visit them when he was ten.
There was scarcely any interaction between humans and Indigenes at all.
Whether the Indigenes saw the Masters as masters too was something that Joseph did not know.
But perhaps they had felt intimidated by the presence among them of the powerful Martin Master Keilloran of House Keilloran, or else the Indigenes of the north were of another sort of temperament from those of Helikis.