What does indigenous mean?
Indigenous means Native to a land, especially before colonization..
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/ɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəs/ · adjective
Native to a land, especially before colonization..
The Aboriginals were indigenous to Victoria before the World War.
Not only the Indian, but many indigenous insects, birds, and quadrupeds, welcomed the apple-tree to these shores.
Horses, like camels, had once been indigenous to Latin America but had become extinct.
Berlin is unique in being home to numerous East German converts to Islam who belong to the same German-speaking Muslim communities as West German converts. […] I attempt in this book to give a good sense of the diversity of contemporary indigenous Sunni Muslims in Germany, while pointing to commonalities and differences.
She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race.
He had all the tricks of a newspaper boy indigenous in him.
That style of pottery is indigenous to that region.
Use indigenous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Indigenous means Native to a land, especially before colonization..
Common synonyms include aboriginal, autochthonous, local, connatural.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The Aboriginals were indigenous to Victoria before the World War.
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