LekhoriLekhoriBorn or originating in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.
The Aboriginals were indigenous to Victoria before the World War.
Innate, inborn.
She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race.
Alternative letter-case form of indigenous (“native, relating to the native inhabitants of a land”).
Many Indigenous people use the day not only to remember the suffering inflicted in the 1620s but also to point out the struggles that Indigenous people continue to face today in the form of, on top of so much else, violence against women and girls.
Borrowed from Late Latin indigenus (“native, born in a country”), from indi- (indu-), an old derivative of in (“in”), gen- the root of gignō (“give birth to”), and English -ous. Compare indigene, Anci...
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