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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
indigenous
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the indigenous populationformal (= 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
▪ This is the richest of the indigenous churches of the district where limestone is plentiful and masonry developed early.
▪ The indigenous churches draw on the past to prepare people for the future.
community
▪ The fact that most of the rainforest is uninhabited, with only a few pockets of indigenous communities, makes exploitation attractive.
▪ Hundreds of soldiers last month entered the Chiapas village of Oventic, an indigenous community that supports the Zapatista rebels.
▪ The indigenous community has borne the brunt of the costs of regeneration but has enjoyed few of its rewards.
▪ Some maquilas were established in indigenous communities, others among mestizos.
▪ Land ownership and the life of indigenous communities is also receiving detailed scrutiny.
▪ The Aztecs dominated dozens of indigenous communities.
▪ The law would grant indigenous communities significant autonomy in the way they run their communities.
▪ When teachers are sent, most of them are ladinos, as relatively few teachers from the indigenous communities are trained.
culture
▪ This at least often seems to be the majority view in the indigenous culture of our society.
▪ The government today is trying to combine preservation of indigenous cultures with economic development.
▪ All manifestations of their indigenous cultures were outlawed.
▪ Instead they are crafting theologies and liturgies that draw on their own indigenous cultures.
▪ The many types of indigenous culture which existed in Siberia fall into approximately nine groups.
▪ Today the region is home to a million tribal people and is the largest remaining stronghold of indigenous culture in the country.
group
▪ Overall, these groups include ethnic minorities, ethnic nationalists, indigenous groups, inter-communal contenders, and militant sects.
inhabitant
▪ Survival International has launched a campaign against the programme and its likely effects on the indigenous inhabitants of the forest.
language
▪ Fang, Bubi and other indigenous languages.
▪ Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo and other indigenous languages.
▪ But for the vast majority of people - particularly in rural areas - indigenous language remains the most potent expression of their aspirations.
▪ Kongo, Lingala and other indigenous languages.
▪ Akan, Kru and other indigenous languages.
▪ Fulani, Malinke, Soussou and other indigenous languages.
people
▪ It is not the indigenous people who are visited by colonists here.
▪ Investors have been a tad nervous since indigenous people rioted for several days in March.
▪ Most indigenous people here, Augustine says, accept Catholicism but practice a native spirituality.
▪ Leopold suggested that indigenous people must instead have contributed to its ecological health and stability.
▪ For the indigenous people the past is part of, and exists alongside, the present.
▪ Reynaldo's own story echoes that of many indigenous people.
▪ Before Marcos spoke, other comandantes made brief appeals for greater respect for indigenous people.
▪ After centuries of neglect, the indigenous people are waking up.
peoples
▪ The comment is irrelevant and demeaning to indigenous peoples living a traditional lifestyle.
▪ This often meant, of course, depriving the indigenous peoples of the very essence of their traditional culture and religious practices.
▪ Plans to lease timber rights from indigenous peoples for extremely low prices were also criticised.
▪ Were indigenous peoples there more successfully integrated?
▪ The cultures of some 40 indigenous peoples are considered backward and irrelevant to the values of the modern, free-market state.
▪ In other countries, the indigenous peoples live in a state of siege.
population
▪ This island will be the scene of many official celebrations in October 1992: its indigenous population was wiped out long ago.
▪ These more remote areas are also those with the highest percentages of indigenous population.
▪ This is not catering for the indigenous population of Ayrshire and Arran.
▪ The indigenous population decreased in alarming proportions.
▪ The indigenous population had the right to elect two congressional representatives in special elections.
▪ The indigenous population seemed very friendly.
▪ This system prevailed over a colony whose territorial boundaries were not determined by the pre-colonial boundaries recognised by the indigenous populations.
▪ Today an Alpine village with an indigenous population of 5,000 might easily accommodate three times that amount in peak season.
species
▪ Unlike other indigenous species, he added, they had long lateral roots.
▪ These gaps will be filled by indigenous species such as poa annua which can form seed at any time during the year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another important difference between exogenous and indigenous firms concerns their linkages with the local economy.
▪ Juan Bautista de Anza inhabited these parts back when the Old Pueblo was still in the hands of indigenous city fathers.
▪ Most of these were 1948 refugees, but some were indigenous to the West Bank.
▪ The indigenous communities of Chiapas discuss and decide, and he is their mouthpiece.
▪ The Aztecs dominated dozens of indigenous communities.
▪ The cemetery is surrounded by indigenous plants and trees.
▪ The food is dumpling-based, substantial, and it would be kinder to draw a veil over the indigenous wine lake.
▪ They had to create formal societies and cultures at the expense of looser indigenous ways.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indigenous

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.]

  1. Native; produced, growing, or living, naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; not imported.

    Negroes were all transported from Africa and are not indigenous or proper natives of America.
    --Sir T. Browne.

    In America, cotton, being indigenous, is cheap.
    --Lion Playas.

  2. Native; inherent; innate.

    Joy and hope are emotions indigenous to the human mind.
    --I. Taylor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
indigenous

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. genui) "beget," from PIE *gen- "produce" (see genus).

Wiktionary
indigenous

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.)

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WordNet
indigenous

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, autochthonous, endemic]

Wikipedia
Indigenous

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 film
Indigenous (band)

Indigenous is an American blues-rock group that came to prominence in the late 1990s. The band originally consisted of two brothers, Mato Nanji (Maiari) ('mah-TOE non-GEE' vocals and guitar, born 1974), Pte ('peh-TAY' bass guitar), along with their sister, Wanbdi ('wan-ba-DEE' drums, vocals), and their cousin, Horse ( percussion).

Their music is influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix and Carlos Santana. Mato Nanji's style and skill has drawn comparisons to each of these guitarists. The band has also shared the stage with artists of varying musical genres such as B.B. King, Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez, the Indigo Girls, Jackson Browne, Dave Matthews Band, and Los Lonely Boys. The band has headlined its own tours several times.

The Nakota Nation members grew up on South Dakota's Yankton Indian Reservation, where their father, Greg Zephier became a spokesperson for Native American rights. A musician in his own right during the 1960s and 1970s, Zephier provided his children with records from blues musicians such as B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Freddie King, and taught them to play their respective instruments. The family started touring together, and soon the children were performing on their own.

Indigenous (horse)

Indigenous (Chinese: 原居民) (1993–2004) was an Irish thoroughbred racehorse who also raced in Hong Kong. He was bred by Major John de Burgh at his Oldtown Stud in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland and sold as a yearling for 10,500 guineas at the Goffs Orby Sale in 1994.

Purchased by trainer Kevin Prendergast, he was named "Qualtron." Racing in Ireland at age two, he won one of three starts and at age three, won two of five starts. With a record of 3-0-1 in 8 starts, he was sold to Mr. & Mrs. Pang Yuen Hing to race in Hong Kong where he was renamed Indigenous and became widely regarded as one of Hong Kong's best stayers.

The winner of a number of important races in Hong Kong, including back-to-back editions of the Hong Kong Champions & Chater Cup, Indigenous also finished a strong second in the 1999 Japan Cup and third in the 2002 Singapore Airlines International Cup.

A gelding, after his reirement from racing on June 3, 2003 Indigenous was used at the Tuen Mun Public Riding School in Tuen Mun, New Territories where he died on August 8, 2004 following an illness.

Indigenous (film)

Indigenous is a 2014 American horror film directed by Alastair Orr and written by Max Roberts. It stars Zachary Soetenga, Lindsey McKeon, Sofia Pernas, Pierson Fode, Jamie Anderson, Juanxo Villaverde and Laura Penuela.

Indigenous (ecology)

In biogeography, a species is defined as indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only natural process, with no human intervention. The term is equivalent to "native" in less scientific usage. Every natural organism (as opposed to a domesticated organism) has its own natural range of distribution in which it is regarded as indigenous. Outside this native range, a species may be introduced by human activity; it is then referred to as an introduced species within the regions where it was anthropogenically introduced.

An indigenous species is not necessarily endemic. In biology and ecology, endemic means exclusively native to the biota of a specific place. An indigenous species may occur in areas other than the one under consideration.

The terms "endemic" and "indigenous" do not imply that an organism necessarily originated or evolved where it is found.

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.