adj.
- Originating and living or occurring naturally in an area or environment. See synonyms at native.
- Intrinsic; innate.
[From Latin indigena, a native. See indigen.]
indigenously in·dig'e·nous·ly adv.indigenousness in·dig'e·nous·ness n.
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indigenous
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adjective
- Existing, born, or produced in a land or region: aboriginal, autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, native. See native/foreign.
- 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. See be, native/foreign, start/end.
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Definition: native, inborn
Antonyms: alien, expatriate, foreign, migrant
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Said of a plant or tree which is native to the area in which it is grown.
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Native to the land, the original inhabitants. See also aborigines.
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For other uses, see indigenous.
For humans, see Indigenous peoples.
In biogeography, a species is defined as native (or indigenous) to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention. Every natural organism (as opposed to a domesticated organism) has its own natural range of distribution in which it is regarded as native. Outside this native range, a species may be introduced by human activity; it is then referred to as an introduced species within the regions where it was anthropogenically introduced.
An indigenous species is not necessarily endemic. In biology and ecology, endemic means exclusively native to the biota of a specific place. An indigenous species may occur in areas other than the one under consideration.
The terms endemic and indigenous do not imply that an organism necessarily originated or evolved where it is found.
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - indfødt, indenlandsk
Nederlands (Dutch)
inheems, aan-/ ingeboren
Français (French)
adj. - indigène, autochtone
Deutsch (German)
adj. - einheimisch, eingeboren
Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - γηγενής, αυτόχθων, ντόπιος, ιθαγενής
Português (Portuguese)
adj. - nativo
Русский (Russian)
местный, природный
Español (Spanish)
adj. - indígena
Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - inhemsk, infödd, medfödd
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
土产的, 本地的, 土著的, 生而俱有的, 内在的, 固有的
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 土產的, 本地的, 土著的, 生而俱有的, 內在的, 固有的
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 토착의, 원산의, 자생의
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 土着の, 原産の, 固有の
العربيه (Arabic)
(صفه) أهلي, بلدي, طبيعي
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - יליד, בן-המקום
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