Meaning of indigenous | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Native to a land, especially before colonization. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. Native to a particular region or environment but occurring naturally in other places as well. The American black bear is indigenous to many different parts of North America. Compare alien, endemic.
3. 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
4. autóctono-a, indígena.
5. Innate, inborn
6. Originating, growing, or produced in a certain place or region. See Synonyms at native.
7. Original to a geographical area
8. Being a member of the original inhabitants of a particular place.
9. originating or occurring naturally (in a country, region, etc); native
10. innate (to); inherent (in)
11. originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often fol. by to): plants indigenous to Canada; indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
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12. innate; inherent; natural (usu. fol. by to): feelings indigenous to humans.
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13. Existing, born, or produced in a land or region:aboriginal, autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, native.
14. Forming an essential element, as arising from the basic structure of an individual:built-in, congenital, connatural, constitutional, elemental, inborn, inbred, indwelling, ingrained, inherent, innate, intrinsic, native, natural.

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