单词 | aborigine |
释义 | aborigine /ab'euh rij"euh nee/, n. 1. one of the original or earliest known inhabitants of a country or region. 2. (cap.) Also, Aboriginal. Also called Australian Aborigine. a member of the dark-skinned people who were the earliest inhabitants of Australia. 3. aborigines, the original, native fauna or flora of a region. [1540-50; by back formation from aborigines < L Aborigines a race of pre-Roman inhabitants of Italy, prob. alter. of an earlier ethnonym by assoc. with AB ORIGINE] |
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