noun
Meaning 1
An indigene or native.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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indigen
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noun
Meaning 2
A plant known to be indigenous to a region, rather than a cultigen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: cultigen
noun
Meaning 3
an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the art of the natives of the northwest coast
- the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: native, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: Levantine, Mauritian, Filipino, Russian, Seychellois
History
Etymology
Variant of indigene. In a botanical sense first used by Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1918.