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▸ adjective: Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times.
▸ adjective: Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
▸ adjective: (biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans.
▸ adjective: (computing, of software) Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
▸ adjective: (mineralogy) Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form.
▸ adjective: Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
▸ adjective: Original; constituting the original substance of anything.
▸ adjective: Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
▸ noun: A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
▸ noun: (in particular) A person of aboriginal descent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. Alternative letter-case form of Native (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
▸ noun: A native speaker.
▸ noun: Ostrea edulis, a kind of oyster.
▸ adjective: Aboriginal to a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)
▸ adjective: (US, Canada) Indian: Native American or First Nation; of or relating to (North) American Indians.
▸ adjective: (Australia, New Zealand) Aboriginal; of or relating to Australian Aboriginal peoples, Aborigines.
▸ adjective: (South Africa) Related to black Africans, especially Bantu.
▸ noun: An aboriginal inhabitant of a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)
▸ noun: (US, Canada) A Native American.
▸ noun: (Australia, New Zealand) An Aborigine.
▸ noun: (South Africa, dated, possibly offensive) A black African, especially a Bantu.
▸ adjective: Alternative letter-case form of Native (of or relating to the native inhabitants of the Americas, or of Australia). [Aboriginal to a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.)]
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inbred,
native-born,
domestic,
aboriginal,
inborn,
indigenous,
natural,
autochthonous,
autochthonal,
homegrown,
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