The Collaborative International Dictionary
Autochthon \Au*toch"thon\, n.; pl. E. Authochthons, L. Autochthones. [L., fr. Gr. ?, pl. ?, from the land itself; a'yto`s self + ? earth, land.]
One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.
That which is original to a particular country, or which had there its origin.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of autochthons English)
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Usage examples of "autochthones".
A band of twenty or so autochthones was scattered across the field of view, turning over stones and sometimes probing holes with simple tools.
The autochthones invariably kill everyone who lands on their planet, unless he escapes immediately.
Veils of dirty smoke swathed the fascine, but the autochthones protected behind it continued to advance the cylinder unhindered.
There were at least forty autochthones behind the fascine, protected by the cylinder's bulk as they pushed it toward the vessel.
By itself, that would just have increased the cost the autochthones incurred when they—crushed, buried, destroyed—the Swift.
Ned said, guiding the Jeep around the stump of a tree, blown apart in smoldering needles where a plasma bolt had struck it The first of the catatonic autochthones lay just beyond.
The mortar, set up near the Swift's ramp, fired a ranging shot Using the high-angle weapon hadn't been part of the plan, but the crew hadn't expected the autochthones to concentrate and to deploy siege equipment so quickly.
If Tadziki had placed his rounds correctly, die autochthones behind one or both die fascines were now flayed corpses.
Ned had hoped—they'd all hoped—that the shock of mangled bodies would cause later waves of autochthones to pause.
He hoped that the flames would prevent fresh autochthones from replacing the team pushing the fascine, as would happen if he'd used normal antipersonnel bomblets.
The fencetine, still deadly despite the scores of victims it had claimed, was buried under a mound of brush—further proof that the autochthones could respond effectively to the starfar-ers' technology.
Tadziki, at the backup console, set the visuals to magnify two autochthones carrying a headless corpse, and behind them, a third living Buinite with a smashed arm.
The autochthones threw down whatever they'd been holding in the moments before they recognized the Swift as the same vessel that had landed an hour and a half before.
Each Jeep left behind it a plume of dust high enough to call autochthones from klicks distant if they wanted to come.
He wanted all the warning he could get if there were autochthones in their neighborhood.