indigenous
IPA: ɪndˈɪdʒʌnʌs
adjective
- Born or originating in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.
- In particular, of or relating to a people (or their language or culture) that inhabited a region prior to the arrival of people of other cultures which became dominant (e.g., through colonialism), and which maintains a distinct culture.
- Innate, inborn.
- Alternative letter-case form of indigenous (“native, relating to the native inhabitants of a land”) [Born or originating in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.]
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Examples of "indigenous" in Sentences
- The other indigenous species is the Roe Deer.
- They are the indigenous inhabitants of the lake.
- The indigenous life of the earth is the life on Earth.
- All except the fallow deer are indigenous to the Cape.
- The indigenous essence of the earth is the earth itself.
- They united and coalesced with the indigenous population.
- Indigenous pharmacology was the most advanced in the world.
- The indigenous Polynesian population are not on the payroll.
- It is the largest indigenous vernacular of the Solomon Islands.
- Are the descendants of the Pilgrims indigenous to North America
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