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Meaning of 'indigenous' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Indigenous [ a.]
- Native; produced, growing, or living, naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; not imported.
- Native; inherent; innate.

Meaning of 'indigenous' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . indigenous [ s]
Meaning (1):
- originating where it is found
Example in sentence:
  • autochthonous rocks and people and folktales;
  • endemic folkways;
  • the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan;
  • the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo

Nearby Words:

ind indagate indagation indagative indagator indamage indamaged indart indazol inde

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