indigenous
21indigenous — adjective indigenous animals, plants etc have always lived or grown naturally in the place where they are, as opposed to others that were brought there (+ to): There were no snakes indigenous to the islands. indigenously adverb …
22indigenous — UK [ɪnˈdɪdʒənəs] / US adjective formal 1) indigenous people lived in a place for a very long time before other people came to live there 2) indigenous plants and animals belong to a region because they developed there …
23indigenous — [ɪnˈdɪdʒənəs] adj 1) indigenous people lived in a place for a very long time before other people came to live there 2) indigenous plants and animals belong to a region because they developed there …
24indigenous — [17] The gen of indigenous comes from the same ultimate source – Indo European *gen – as produced English gender, generate, genital, etc. It denoted ‘produce’. The addition of the Latin prefix indi ‘in, within’, earlier indu (a strengthened form… …
25indigenous — adj. Indigenous is used with these nouns: ↑community, ↑culture, ↑inhabitant, ↑language, ↑people, ↑population, ↑tradition, ↑tribe, ↑variety, ↑wildlife …
26indigenous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. native; innate, inborn; inherent, natural (to). See intrinsic, inhabitant. Ant., alien, foreign. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Native] Syn. domestic, autochthonous, original; see native 2 . 2. [Inborn] …
27indigenous — having remote ancestors from the territory where you live Literally, native, a word which has unacceptable colonial connotations: Americans should celebrate Columbus Day as Indigenous People s Day. (Seitz, 1998) …
28indigenous — adjective indigenous species Syn: native, original, aboriginal, autochthonous; local, domestic, homegrown; earliest, first See note at native …
29Indigenous — /ɪnˈdɪdʒənəs/ (say in dijuhnuhs) adjective 1. of or relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: Indigenous issues. –noun 2. an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. Usage: See note at Aborigine …
30indigenous — /ɪn dɪdʒɪnəs/ adjective belonging to a particular country or area ● Cocoa is not indigenous to the area, but has been grown there for some years …
