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indigenous, a.|ɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəs|
[f. late L. indigen-us born in a country, native (f. indigen-a a native: see indigene) + -ous.]
1. Born or produced naturally in a land or region; native or belonging naturally to (the soil, region, etc.). (Used primarily of aboriginal inhabitants or natural products.)
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. x. 325 Although..there bee..swarmes of Negroes serving under the Spaniard, yet were they all transported from Africa..and are not indigenous or proper natives of America. 1697Phil. Trans. XIX. 497 This Creature was formerly Common with us in Ireland; and an Indigenous Animal..universally met with in all parts of the Kingdom. 1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 188 In different Highland glens..where the indigenous sheep are supposed to remain unmixed. 1794S. Williams Vermont 70 A plant indigenous only to China and Tartary. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) I. 212 They had..been passionately fond of their indigenous poetry. 1868F. Hall in Examiner 11 Apr. 228/3 Compositions which studiously reject all words that are not either Sanskritic or indigenous. 1881Westcott & Hort Grk. N.T. Introd. §118 Hardly any indigenous Syriac theology older than the fourth century has been preserved. 1885Rider Haggard K. Solomon's Mines Introd. 5 The indigenous flora and fauna of Kukuanaland.
b. transf. and fig. Inborn, innate, native.
a1864I. Taylor (Webster), Joy and hope are emotions indigenous to the human mind. 1885J. Martineau Types Eth. Th. II. 68 The more we appreciate what obligation means, the more shall we rest in the psychologically indigenous character of its conditions.
2. Of, pertaining to, or intended for the natives; ‘native’, vernacular.
1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India II. 579 Most of the Missionary establishments attempted the formation of an English school in connexion with their indigenous schools.
Hence inˈdigenously adv., in an indigenous manner, as a native growth. inˈdigenousness, the quality of being indigenous or native.
1846Grote Greece ii. iv. II. 403 The Achæans..belonging indigenously to the peninsula. 1851G. Blyth Remin. Miss. Life iv. 183 The cotton plant grows indigenously. 1894Forum (U.S.) Mar. 19 Progress is slow, population increasing but slightly, and that indigenously. Mod. The plant is recorded from various localities in Scotland, but its indigenousness in the north is doubted. |