indigenous

1. 1.Native to a land, especially before colonization.

   • The Aboriginals were indigenous to Victoria before the World War.
   • The Ainu are the indigenous ethnic group of Japan's Hokkaido Island.
   • Horses, like camels, had once been indigenous to Latin America but had become extinct.

2. 2.Innate, inborn.

   • He had all the tricks of a newspaper boy indigenous in him.
   • She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe, cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race.

3. 3.Original to a geographical area.

   • That style of pottery is indigenous to that region.

4. 4.Alternative letter-case form of indigenous (“native, relating to the native inhabitants of a land”).

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