Indigenous
[ɪn'dɪdʒɪnəs] or [ɪn'dɪdʒənəs]
Definition
(a.) Native; produced, growing, or living, naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; not imported.
(a.) Native; inherent; innate.
Checker: Max
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Native, not exotic.
Checked by Dolores
Definition
adj. native born or originating in: produced naturally in a country.—adj. and n. In′digene.—adv. Indig′enously.
Checker: Wyatt
Examples
- She is very comely, with the beauty indigenous to this country. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He seems to be indigenous to this part of the world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Brauner, then residing in Brooklyn, New York, had an expert knowledge of indigenous plants of the particular kind desired. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And perhaps also indigenous to the Greek soil, rooted deeply there in the time of the world-wide ancient heliolithic culture, were religious dances. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In Burmah the giant bamboo, as already mentioned, is found indigenous; but beside it no superior varieties were found. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One of the best specimens tested during the entire trip around the world was found first in Ceylon, although later in Burmah, it being indigenous to the latter country. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was nothing indigenous to the climate or race that rendered the Americans inventors. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Checker: Wyatt